Apple Cold String Band (album release), Miles Over Mountains, Bryan Drewyor

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Emily Braun

Apple Cold Stringband (left to right): Hilary Friedman, Jim Hilgendorf, Mark Coatsworth, Scott Burclaff.

Overwater, the debut album by Madison four-piece Apple Cold String Band, presents 12 acoustic tunes that sound more like a lost field recording from the Appalachian Mountains than a 2018 release by a Midwestern outfit. Their joyfully rollicking and unsanitized approach to the traditional sound brings light to the music even when the subjects are dark. With progressive bluegrassers Miles Over Mountains and “one-human band” Bryan Drewyor.