Little Mazarn - “Honey Island General Store”

SXSW 2024 - OEB Score: 7; Popularity Index: 2

Pairs Well With…The Low Anthem, Big Thief, Anaïs Mitchell

To think there is room for Little Mazarn to get sparser and more delicate, but latest EP Honey Island General Store does exactly that. Lonely guitar plucks and chords, haunting slide, and minimal percussion highlight this latest release from the Austin duo. The lack of instrumentation produces a quality that is both haunting and nostalgic, vulnerable and poignant. Hitting the heartstrings with a whisper, hopefully Little Mazarn find a pin-drop room to showcase this year at SXSW, one that lets the space between the notes ring out in empty, forlorn airs. (Kevin McStravick)

2020 Review: Sparse and tender, Little Mazarn’s 2019 release Io takes Americana motions to raw and emotive places, slowly crafting their music with a patient touch. There are some loose, almost psychedelic notes that play throughout Little Mazarn’s sound, melodies and soundscapes that add an ambience to their natural roots. Little Mazarn are the Austin duo of Lindsey Verrill and Jeff Johnston, artists that play a banjo and a saw as their main instruments respectively, the latter giving off a ghostly atmosphere by laying a violin bow over the metal echos of a traditional tool.