House of Confusion

HOUSE OF CONFUSION is Trace Mountains' third album and the rugged, earthier follow-up companion to 2020's Lost in the Country. Recorded in the winter of 2021 in various locations - a studio in the foothills of the Shawangunk Ridge in New York, at home along the Rondout Creek of the Hudson Valley, a NYC apartment, and in a small shared music workspace in Denver, Colorado - the album is an entangled assortment of thoughts, a hay bale of songs. Each one wrapped up in the intentions of the other, the album is comprised of road songs, rock songs, country songs, religious songs, disco songs, satanic songs, jams, and simple tunes, laid out in careful presentation - to use at your leisure. In the year of the coronavirus pandemic which followed the release of Lost in the Country, primary songwriter Dave Benton - jobless and like many other musicians, with newfound time on his hands - threw himself into an early-morning routine of instrumental practice and dedicated songwriting time. "I was used to waking up early for my warehouse job, so when I got laid off, I just kept up that schedule and implemented another daily regimen focused on improving my guitar playing and writing songs." He began exploring fingerstyle guitar, learning new picking patterns, and implementing them into his songwriting. He would wake up, feed his cats, and then spend hours on the couch downing cups of coffee, repeating patterns, and swapping newfound