Caribou Party (released March 5th 2021) comes out of a time of global crisis, after displacement and a newfound abundance of time. This music sits in a proud place in the heart of Corner House. The hope is that the minute your finger touches play, you feel the gravity the band felt listening to the notes leave their little music boxes. Come celebrate as this small blessing is released in the middle of a chaotic upset in human history, and know that we all still have the capacity to be grateful for ourselves, for love, and for the music that we share with one another.

Smart Folks (released September 13th, 2019) is the first EP from Corner House which includes Casey Murray on cello and claw-hammer banjo, and is a diverse mix of sounds and textures, songs and tunes. The first cut, a collection of Irish slip jigs (Farewell to Whaley Range and Soggy’s Slip Jig) combines swirling melody and counterpoint. Following that is one of two Hawkins-penned tunes on the recording. Happy Now is a musing on family and depression, brought to life by the band. The title track, Smart Folks, penned by Setiawan, works with odd phrase lengths and a singing melody to create a unique profile, characteristic to his writing. The album closes with a banjo tune by Murray. Through the Snow-Covered Pines evokes the Appalachian string-band side of the band, finishing the album on an uplifting note.
The tunes and songs that make up Smart Folks came to be over a period of several months, before being committed to recordings in March 2019.

The first recording from Corner House, released in 2018.