Inchworm – free haunted Chicago indie mp3s

These tracks from Chicago indie band Inchworm are really, truly, amazingly good with zeitgeistily appropriate lyrics longing for simple things like days without money, knowing it’s a maybe a teenage phase to long like this, but longing anyway, with sounds aptly described as “ragged blues and barroom psychedelia.” The stories and songs were fostered and found in a crumbling cabin in the woods and you can hear the ghosts of old pianos and heartbreak in the distant sonorous background.

3 free Inchworm MP3′s:

Simple Days Without Money 1

Green House Grown

Waltz Through The Ashes

Get the EP in full from the Inchworm website:

http://www.inchwormmusic.com/

In the summer of 2003, guitarist and vocalist Matthew Baugher was given a son’s nightmare summer job: travel deep into the Southern Illinois valley to restore and renovate his father’s ill-purchased Lake Paradise cabin. Fearing years of hard labor on his own, Matthew enlisted the help of three trusted friends from the Chicago independent music scene: Brian Morrissey, Mike Holtz, and Dan Ingenthron.

With instruments and implements in hand, the wrecking crew rock band that would be known as Inchworm was born somewhere along a desolate stretch of I-57.

The boys spent the entire summer of 2003 hammering and harmonizing, composting and composing, scrubbing and scratching together the kind of music that the time-forgotten cabin seemed to be longing for – organic, folk-laden pop with reverent undertones of ragged blues and barroom psychedelia.