Last Leaves combine songwriter Marty Donald’s lyrical sleight-of-hand with the jangle and racket of his former Lucksmiths bandmates Louis Richter and Mark Monnone, and drummer Noah Symons of Great Earthquake fame. In late-2017 Last Leaves released their debut album Other Towns Than Ours to a resounding chorus of hurrahs.

Finding his greatest success as a sideman for Totally Mild and Kes Band, Lehmann B. Smith has often been described as a musician’s musician, an undiscovered talent. He is a prodigious songwriter, compiling album after album of unreleased material and storing them away in his home studio for a rainy day.