Loveridge Is Burning, the sophomore album from alt-country trio DRIFT MOUTH, is being pressed on vinyl and will be available on November 12, 2021 via Wild Frontier Recording Company. In addition, the band has unveiled its macabre animated video for their haunting single “The Ghost of Paul Weaver” which was animated by renowned video producer John Burness (Hootie & the Blowfish, Wu-Tang Clan, Jason Aldean, Demi Lovato). Vinyl is now available for preorder here.

“Paul Weaver was mostly a solitary man,” explains vocalist and guitarist Lou Poster. “Misunderstood by the townsfolk, he lived alone on a parcel of land that he loved more than anything in the world. He fell in love with a woman, Eliza Jones, who lived down the hill, bringing her gifts of morel mushrooms and crabapples from his property. She was his only real connection to the community, as most of the other residents considered him an oddball and outcast.

When the local coal baron sent men to buy his land, he refused. They beat and killed him and tried to make it look like a train hopping accident, going so far as to leave a goodbye note for Eliza typed out on Paul’s own machine. Everyone knew what had really happened, but went along with the lie as people often do. Eventually the obvious truth became widely accepted, but by then there was no one left who remembered his story.

Paul’s ghost still walks the hills, searching for his two lost loves; his beautiful land and Eliza Jones.”