Minor Gold & Guests

This Aussie duo is aptly named. Their sound is breezy and understated, but the songs are also lustrous and bright, with lasting value. Tracy McNeil and Dan Parsons have been making music together for a while, though this is their first release as Minor Gold. It's a potent partnership; their voices meld beautifully, with heavenly harmonies and a glorious simplicity to the presentation - props to co- producer Hugh Middleton. This is an album to get lost in. Check out Around the Bend, where Parsons and McNeil both sing about the wish to escape: "Don't want to pick up the phone, wish the world would leave me alone." If you loved '70s soft rock - or were introduced to it by this vear's TV series Daisy Jones & the Six - you'll dig this record.
Minor Gold - the harmony-drenched cosmic-folk duo from Australia - bring their new album Way to the Sun to North America in 2026.

The record was captured in California with producer Dan Horne (Mapache, Cass McCombs), shaping a sophomore release whose fresh, radiant sound has been turning heads globally. Described by UNCUT magazine as a “delightful pairing - with an alluring telepathy to the way their voices curl around each other, rarely heard in country music since Emmylou Harris rode shotgun with Gram Parsons.”
Critics noting echoes of Simon & Garfunkel’s intertwined melodies, the close-mic guitar intimacy of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, and the open-road, wide-horizon spirit of the Grateful Dead - all filtered through a modern, sun-lit sound that feels effortless and alive.
Fresh off a whirlwind UK/EU album tour, Minor Gold are thrilled to return to North America in 2026.
“The pair's real superpower is their melodic vocal interplay and sixth-sense harmonies…Imagine standing at a crossroads, halfway between Laurel Canyon and a sandy palm tree cove. These are the intoxicating sounds you might hear drifting on that summer breeze.” - Rhythms Magazine