“you say you want to be more than part of a machine”

- one way, perry lane

“We were both reading The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test when we first started playing together and I think Ken Kesey and The Pranksters, that whole live life now mentality, was a big inspiration for Perry Lane.”

Perry Lane, Harvest’s first recording, is an acoustic and often introspective set of songs.

flood, marquee, soak it up, drifting, for what you are, what happens when, one way, need to know, it’s over, hold me.

- perry lane

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“I think we wanted to turn up the volume a bit for our next record, add a few things, insert some more complexity and raise the bar.”

Mike Flynn and Nathan Hanley added drummer David Machlan, distortion, and a spot or two of violin with Fabienne Maurer for their ten-song recording Entertaining the Notion.

what happens when, drifting, soak it up, cold, just let it be, finally, flood, smoke, felt, shine.

- entertaining the notion

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The duo of Hanley and Flynn re-discovered their acoustic roots in Brooklyn with Vinegar Hill.

"Perry Lane was like home for us I think, and Vinegar Hill to me felt like a love letter to Perry Lane written from the East Coast,” says Hanley.

“We wrote some new songs, including Here We Go Again, but also revisited tracks from the other two records. We wanted to take the opportunity to re-present some music in a way fitting to our beginning as a band.”