Allison Graves is the project of Harper Bull, a singer, songwriter and naturalist from New England, and I Still Look For The Mountains is the debut. It was written and recorded over six months and across two coasts, with a secondhand guitar and a broken laptop, and it sounds aged and well loved, like an old house: dogs barking in the background, children playing in the yard, the room itself part of the recording. Bull sums the record up in four words on the Bandcamp page: 'songs about coming to terms'.

The album opens with a brassy modular synth sequence and layered vocals, a small surprise that sets the mood for everything that follows, then settles into guitar and a breathy, close-up voice. Eleven songs, about 39 minutes: the title track, 'Good To You', 'Doe A Deer', 'Summer Song', 'The Leaves And You (Change)', 'Six', 'Blame', 'Watching The House Go Dark', with pedal steel by Macks Johanesen, 'Careful', 'Brighter Side' and the closing 'Back Porch, Straight Through'. The writing tries to pin down big, all-encompassing feelings, the unexplainable joys and sorrows of ordinary life, with a rich sense of melody and harmony that carries the depth of the songs.

Important Records hears it as a long-lost reissue from Joe Boyd's Witchseason catalogue, close to Nick Drake and Vashti Bunyan, and draws its roots from Adrianne Lenker and Bon Iver; the label recommends it to listeners of Kurt Weisman, Diane Cluck, James Blackshaw, Kimya Dawson and Asa Irons and Swaan Miller.

First released in November 2024 as a CDR limited to 100 copies, each with a label hand-drawn by the artist, it now arrives on vinyl for the first time (IMPREC537).