Kevin Bronson on July 29th, 2011

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You’d think the hills of Silver Lake and Echo Park were Appalachia judging from the amount of big-hearted folk music coming from the scene. The tunes of Count Fleet are exemplary – earnest and winsome, they feel like a hedge against high-tech city life, illusory social media friendships and button-pushing marketing campaigns. The duo of Elliot Glass and Caitlin Dwyer are following up their February EP – made with the help of a lot of familiar faces from the Eastside, including members (or ex-members) of the Belle Brigade, the Henry Clay People, the Parson Red Heads and Races – with the 7-inch single “Stay Here.” Like the EP, it was produced by Raymond Richards (who, by the way, is marking the 10-year anniversary of his Red Rockets Glare studio), with whom Glass and Dwyer are working on a full-length. Jangle away.

||| Download: “Stay Here”

||| Live: Count Fleet celebrates the release with a show Aug. 4 at the Satellite with Downtown/Union, the Hectors and the Outdoors.