On the band’s MySpace page, there is a poem that speaks of sailing musicians being stranded in a desert by a storm. From “Circus Song,” their eponymous EP’s opener, through the closing “Broken Back,” that’s exactly what this music feels like. Like it’s made for a different place, maybe a different time. A time when news was carried between countries by boat, not cable internet. The EP feels like it was recorded in a tavern at a busy port, where this news came together from different countries, and is being shared.
The vocalist has an amazing voice, and it is the perfect counterpoint to the instrumentation. She has seen a lot in her travels, and wants nothing more in the world than to share what’s she’s seen with the customers at the crowded tavern.
With their bass clarinet and bassoon, the band fills out the low end in a way that makes the songs haunting. Add to this a French horn and a violin, and it sounds like music from that one land whose name no one can ever remember. 
This is a band to watch.
Who: Freddy Reyes, Steve Bohn, Jordan Goddard, Garnet, Ryan Probst, Kristilyn Woods, Henri Benard, Megyn Neff
During the past few months, one band’s name has been on the lips of quite a few people I’ve run into. They’d all mention Dry River Yacht Club and get that far away look in their eyes like they’d heard something astonishing. Or they were having a stroke. I asked. It was the first option.
