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Premiere: Strawberry Mountain’s “Lovely Celebration” and nationwide tour

"Lovely Celebration" is the fourth single from Strawberry Mountain's forthcoming album, Rebirth

Dan Ray October 13, 2018
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Premiere: Strawberry Mountain’s “Lovely Celebration” and nationwide tour October 13, 2018

Raised by a single mother in the suburbs of Detroit, Dan discovered an early passion for singing, songwriting, and the arts as a whole. She got her BA in English and music at the University of Michigan, where she reported for the school’s paper, The Michigan Daily. She worked as a Senior News Reporter on the government beat, transitioned to arts writing, and eventually became the managing editor of the social media department. She moved to Seattle in 2017. After losing her job during the COVID-19 pandemic and discouraged about the lack of press surrounding Seattle’s music scene, Dan made the decision to turn Dan’s Tunes, a fully fledged music journalism website focused on showcasing the Seattle area’s musicians, into its own startup. There’s so much music happening in the city that spawned Pearl Jam, Nirvana, and Jimi Hendrix — among others — and Dan’s Tunes is determined to find and expose those outstanding acts. The goal is to have satellites in every major US city, uplifting diverse and compelling voices and helping music communities thrive. In 2020, Dan was featured in the Seattle Times’s year-end music critic poll. Other than her musical endeavors (singing, playing ukulele, and auditioning for American Idol four times before the age of 24) Ray is passionate about food and education around the American food system, and she’s also a large proponent of eliminating the stigma around mental health. Ray loves cats, especially her own, who is named Macaulay Culkin (but she’s a lady).

Photo courtesy of Strawberry Mountain // Photo by Dan Bracaglia

Local psych-pop group Strawberry Mountain will release its second album, Rebirth, on October 31st via Youth Riot Records. In anticipation of the debut, the band has released three previous singles — “Oxford,” “Double Summits,” and, the title track, “Rebirth.” Now, as the final teaser, Strawberry Mountain is premiering “Lovely Celebration,” the closing piece of the album.

“Lovely Celebration” is a six-minute saga that cascades the listener through a changing landscape of sounds: the first minute of the track is a fast-paced folksy do-wop that tells the contrastingly melancholy story of love gone wrong — “my guilt weighs this unbearable body down with three hundred pounds of scrap metal and bird seed dangling off my neck.”

After a two-and-a-half-minute instrumental interlude, vocalist Carter Price oozes back into the track with a low-pitched drone while he coos, “please please forgive me / Please please let me forgive myself….Life’s a long lovely celebration until the end.”

On November 1st, Strawberry Mountain will embark on a month-long tour across the U.S., beginning in Moscow, ID, and closing with five West Coast dates where the group will be opening for Beaverton, OR’s The Helio Sequence.

Listen to “Lovely Celebration” and view Strawberry Mountain’s tour dates below.

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Raised by a single mother in the suburbs of Detroit, Dan discovered an early passion for singing, songwriting, and the arts as a whole. She got her BA in English and music at the University of Michigan, where she reported for the school’s paper, The Michigan Daily. She worked as a Senior News Reporter on the government beat, transitioned to arts writing, and eventually became the managing editor of the social media department. She moved to Seattle in 2017. After losing her job during the COVID-19 pandemic and discouraged about the lack of press surrounding Seattle’s music scene, Dan made the decision to turn Dan’s Tunes, a fully fledged music journalism website focused on showcasing the Seattle area’s musicians, into its own startup. There’s so much music happening in the city that spawned Pearl Jam, Nirvana, and Jimi Hendrix — among others — and Dan’s Tunes is determined to find and expose those outstanding acts. The goal is to have satellites in every major US city, uplifting diverse and compelling voices and helping music communities thrive. In 2020, Dan was featured in the Seattle Times’s year-end music critic poll. Other than her musical endeavors (singing, playing ukulele, and auditioning for American Idol four times before the age of 24) Ray is passionate about food and education around the American food system, and she’s also a large proponent of eliminating the stigma around mental health. Ray loves cats, especially her own, who is named Macaulay Culkin (but she’s a lady).