Examineradio - The Halifax Examiner Podcast

The trad quartet Villages recorded and put out its debut EP, Upon theHorizon, in the midst of the pandemic and subsequently had its releaseshow rescheduled twice. Since then they've already made a full-lengthbut now is the time—specifically November 13 at the Marquee—tocelebrate those songs. Matt and Travis Ellis—cousins, not brothers, asTara learned live on air, after 15 years of writing about them—drop byto talk about the recording process, the ways they access the Celticside of themselves, and how their indie-rock band Mardeen is notnecessarily over.