Common Prayer

Common Prayer is a Brooklyn-based, sometimes folk/often rock outfit led by Jason Sebastian Russo (Hopewell/Mercury Rev). The band's first album, There Is A Mountain, was released on Neil Halsted's Big Potato Records in 2010, and hailed by the BBC as one of that year's "most recommended under-the-radar releases." Current line-up includes Russo (guitar/vocals), Tara Autovino (keyboard/concertina/vocals), Sara Press (bass/vocals), and Benjamin Kaplan (drums). The folk version of the band (Russo/Autovino) traveled to Austin, Texas this year to perform with their musical hero, Daniel Johnston, at SXSW. Common Prayer's second album, Frame The River, will be released this October. Buy it. "Totally, utterly, superbly genius" 10/10 - Americana UK