The ambitious young Michigan-founded Band To Watch Racing Mount Pleasant impressed a lot of us with their self-titled album this year, their second overall and first since changing their name from Kingfisher. Personally, I’m eager to hear more songs from the emo/post-rock combo, and fortunately it sounds like new music is practically falling out of them. Closing out their tour at Ann Arbor’s Power Center for the Performing Arts, RMP debuted a new song that, per the unofficial Instagram fan account @rmpupdates, “was literally written in the green room before the show,” a slow-burn mood piece with the requisite sax action. Seems like they’re on to something…
In Ann Arbor the group also performed “Seminary,” a live rarity if @rmpupdates is to be believed:
