Photo by Julia Bee

Last year around this time we were talking about some of our favorite records to be released in the 2011 year and we couldn’t help but talk a lot about Mikal Cronin’s debut offering on Trouble In Mind Records. We think that’s pretty understandable though – that record’s sick. Aside from a few tours and a couple limited release singles, things have been pretty quiet on the Cronin front this year. He’s been busy doing his own thing and touring pretty relentlessly with Ty Segall, and today we got word that his next record will be coming from Merge [who also recently signed Reigning Sound and hometown dreamboat William Tyler] Looks like Merge is gunning for that “label of the year” title pretty hard. Anyway – more information will be released soon about Mikal’s next record and you know we’ll keep you posted. Until then – you can listen to him cover a Troggs cut that always kills us – especially lately…