Hailing from Detroit, Bonny Doon served as Waxhatchee’s backing band on the Saint Cloud tour; the band’s Bill Lennox and Bobby Colombo also worked with Katie Crutchfield on that album. Throughout the ten tracks in their new album ‘Let There Be Music’, you can hear the spaciousness Bonny Doon allowed themselves since their 2018 sleeper cult-classic ‘Longwave’. Their latest musical journey is one that has big payoffs for devoted followers and undeniable rewards for anyone just stumbling across the band for the first time. After extensively touring ‘Longwave’ by supporting Band of Horses, “The experience raised the ceiling on our imagination,” Colombo said in a statement. Bonny Doon’s new album, “Let There Be Music”, was led by “On My Mind” and the title track. This June we hear from men who have made it to their California. Or a different space in Detroit. Men who found love, toured, and await the new world to be born.
On their long-awaited third album, we get a glimpse into the pure joy of Bonny Doon. The album serves as less of one conceptual story, and each song as their own individual offerings of putting words to the ordinary experience of being alive. The band is at their most dynamic and the songwriting deftly explores new terrain. ‘Let There Be Music’ is brimming with small truths – both profound and mundane, comforting and difficult – and we are invited to revel in them all.
released June 16th, 2023
Produced by Bonny Doon and Brian Fox
Mixed by Jarvis Taveniere and Bobby Colombo
The Fat Angel Sings 