The Daily Spin II

Richy Mitch & the Coal Miners | RMCM

Welcome back to the Daily Spin. For the uninitiated, this is the series in which I review an album every day of 2025.

As was the case two years ago, my favorite song from each album can be found at the playlist linked here.

Album: RMCM (2017)

Artist: Richy Mitch & the Coal Miners

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I am such a sucker for some good lil twangy indie, and few groups do that like Montanan five-piece Richy Mitch and the Coal Miners. Now based out of Washington after stops in Colorado, it’s sort of a checklist of Western hipster spots these days - just need Portland for a full hand.

That sort of pioneering sound leaks plentifully like a faucet with a bad seal in RMCM, the group’s debut full-length - from songs like ‘Evergreen’ (which, holy shit, that has nearly a billion streams on Spotify. what?) to ‘St. Paul’, my personal favorite off the record, the type of track that sounds like it belongs playing on an old-time piano in a dusty bar somewhere off the beaten track.

An album that sounds like nature will always have my heart - this is exactly that kind of music. Though I don’t always see the cohesive vision that the album tries to present, the individual pieces are undeniably very strong, enough so that I’m hard-pressed to feel anything but pleasant about this music. Nice.

Rating: 7/10

Best Tracks: St. Paul

Worst Tracks: Wind