Name: Dream Hunting in the Valley of the In-Between
Brand: Man Man

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

SP1350

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Colour

black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: Yes

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Gatefold Jacket with Custom Dust Sleeves and Etching on Side D

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-05-08

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

0098787135015

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2 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Man Man

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Sub Pop

Honus Honus (aka Ryan Kattner) has devoted his career to exploring the uncertainty between life’s extremes, beauty, and ugliness, order and chaos. The songs on Dream Hunting in the Valley of the In-Between, Man Man’s first album in over six years and their Sub Pop debut, are as intimate, soulful, and timeless as they are audaciously inventive and daring, resulting in his best Man Man album to date. The 17-track effort, featuring Cloud Nein, Future Peg, On the Mend Sheela, and Animal Attraction, was produced by Cyrus Ghahremani, mixed by S. Husky Höskulds and mastered by Dave Cooley also includes guest vocals from Steady Holiday’s Dre Babinski on Future Peg and If Only, and Rebecca Black (singer of the viral pop hit, Friday) on On The Mend and Lonely Beuys. The album follows the release of Beached and Witch, Man Man’s contributions to Vol. 4 of the Sub Pop Singles Club in 2019.

At the end of 2015, Man Man went on an unexpected hiatus, and thus began a period of creative reinvention for Honus Honus. He worked in music supervision and on scores (The Exorcist, Superdeluxe, Do You Want to See a Dead Body?). He acted in the indie film Woe (“I played a park ranger, a nice guy in a sad movie.”), So It Goes, a short musical film with Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and starred in the award-winning tour documentary Use Your Delusion. 

In the midst of this surreal exile from Man Man, Honus began piecing together what would become Dream Hunting in the Valley of the In-Between. He recruited longtime-collaborator Cyrus Ghahremani to help him produce. Written in a friend’s LA guesthouse that had “an old upright piano, a thrift store lamp, and nothing else,” it was an arduous, three-and-a-half-year process, “I had chord progressions that looked like chicken scratch and lyrics on pieces of paper stuck all over the walls. It looked like I was about to break the big case, catch the killer,” he says, laughing. “There was a lot of self-doubt, fighting the urge to throw in the towel. It wasn’t fun but it definitely forced the best album of my career out of me. Sometimes you just gotta tear it all down to rebuild things the right way. Trust the process.”

Dream Hunting in the Valley of the In-Between

Music GB