True Green

True Green’s name comes from medieval nun Hildegard of Bingen’s idea of viriditas, and also a lawn care company. Their debut, My Lost Decade, came out on Spacecase Records in 2024. Minneapolis-based songwriter Dan Hornsby is also a novelist (his book Via Negativa is being adapted into a film starring Young Mazino) and these songs put his storytelling skills on full display. Tailer Ransom (of Owl’s Head Mountain) offers beautifully textured synths, guitar fills, piano, and banjo throughout the record. Mixed and mastered by Matt Qualls at Easley McCain Recording, the songs evoke some of the bands who recorded there, especially Silver Jews and Guided By Voices. Hail Disaster is a darker, warmer follow up to their debut, exploring tragedies real and imagined, ranging from family cruelty (“Italian Lightning”), to doomed love (“Hamlet + Juliet”), and the death of Hornsby’s uncle from AIDS (“Terry’s Parrot”). “The first half of your life is Tetris, the second half is Jenga,” Hornsby sings on “Bodysurfing.” Multi-instrumental ringer Tailer Ransom lends a poignant, bittersweet frame to Hornsby’s lyrics. Writer Justin Taylor says: “Dan’s vocals are mellow as ever, but the wisdom he’s sharing (also the jokes, stories, visions, and love) feels hard-won, wrested from the quenchless jaws of the disaster that his title hails.” Hail Disaster was mixed and mastered by Matt Castore at Soft Cult Studio, with additional mastering by Matt Qualls. Out on Spacecase Records 3/24/2026.