Accordions

Members
Benjamin Bernthal, Joseph Kilbourn, Ben Leslie, Paul Cobb, David Strother, Adam Gross, and Kipp Normand. Other contributors: Steve Trowbridge, Geoff Davis, Andrew Romeril, and Alisha Garrison
About

Benjamin Bernthal is a poet and a song writer. As the front man for the band Accordions, Bernthal indulges his love for verbal imagery and combines it with melodies that get into your head and make themselves at home.

Collaboration is at the heart of Accordions method. Friends from other bands often join in, making no two performances the same and making each recording into a celebration. Accordions believe their music comes from many places: discovering a way of playing an old forgotten instrument, passionately expressing age-old truths through these newly discovered means, and most of all a sort of gritty sincerity that permeates the songs.

Albums

The Moon at Half-Mast

11 songs

Auld Lang Syne
2:53
Half-Asleep on Sunday
5:29
Crickets
4:06
The Death of the Moth
4:16
Hawks
2:44
At Her Parents' House
3:00
Woods
5:50
If I Tell You I Love You
3:49
Then You Will Know It Is
2:13
Mt. St. Helens
6:29
Wooden Chair
2:58

Hope for the Best

10 songs

Cape Neddick
5:46
Earthworms
3:52
History Books
4:15
Robert L Sinclaire
5:21
Rose's Theme
1:11
Paper Horses
7:04
For Emily
5:36
Junkyard
4:54
And When There Was No Sea Left, We Took to the Skies
1:56
I Sailed with Magellan
5:43

Early Recordings

4 songs

Cape Neddick Demo
5:58
The Account of a Proud Mother
4:59
Banjo and Saw duet
0:38
Magellan Demo
5:56