New music from The Best Around

Coming from Austin, Texas, alternative country outfit The Best Around create energetic and well crafted folk anthems from catchy jams to post-punk anti-authoritarian epics. The three-piece band is made up of accomplished musicians Camron, Todd and Jon, who each draw on their experience and talents to make The Best Around greater than the sum of its parts.

Since forming the band at the beginning of the pandemic the trio have been recording their respective parts of songs separately in their own homes. Rather than sticking to method and detailed writing strategy, they instead allow open ideas to be bounced back and forth between inboxes, instilling a sense of freestyle that takes the music in an organic direction.

Now they share their latest effort with the new single “Didn’t Come Here to Count ’em”. Featuring country songwriting and instrumentation, the track benefits from the band’s original creativity. With the addition of a horn section and synthesisers, The Best Around lay down a truly refreshing and unique take on the style, delivering a self-described “cosmic honky-tonk big band” vibe.

Full of bouncing energy and rhythm, with “Didn’t Come Here to Count ’em” captures the sound of a band playing live. The full arrangement lifts the spirits and impact beneath their infectious lead vocal lines. Mixed and mastered at Cacophony Recorders by Erik Wofford, the single is the latest in a series of tracks planned for this year, all set to make up The Best Around’s upcoming debut full-length record.

Listen to Didn’t Come Here to Count ’em below