Kevin Bronson on September 26th, 2011

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The songs of Vanish Valley come from a lot of different places – geographical locales, yes, but harder-to-access regions like the head and the heart too. They’re the brainchild of Andrew McAllister, whose leathery voice suggests he spent a minute or two in Austin’s dive bars after moving there from the Northwest. McAllister, a film editor by day and once the driving force behind Seattle country quartet Conrad Ford, relocated to L.A. in 2008 and began working with drummer Daniel Goldblatt. That pair, now aligned with Guy Christiano and Alex Owen, mete out Southern (California) fried morsels as well as chunks of piquant indie rock. “I’ve got a lot of strangers inside me / who come out every night,” McAllister sings in “Stuck in LA,” a sign, perhaps, that he’s adapted to his new surroundings pretty well.

||| Download: “Races” and “The Bottom”

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||| Live: Vanish Valley celebrates its album release Oct. 5 at the Hotel Cafe, and also has dates Oct. 29 at Pehrspace and Nov. 22 at the Silverlake Lounge.

||| Watch: After the jump, check out Vanish Valley’s video for “Races”: