Magnetic Malaise is Red Tail Hawk's second EP, released October 18, 2014: five songs that stretch the band's groove-rock sound, from the opener "Dark" through "That's What She Said," "The Quickening" and the six-minute "Free Me" to "Ambivalent."

How it was made. The band tracked the EP in December 2012 at Pilot Recording Studios, Will Schillinger's studio in a converted 1920s church in Housatonic, Massachusetts. It went to tape on a Studer 2-inch machine through the SSL console that came from Tony Bennett's studio in Englewood, New Jersey, with more recording at Phillips Sound in Rowley, Massachusetts. Alex Sandman and Ben Zanfagna produced and arranged it, and Tim Phillips mixed and mastered it.

Who plays. Ben Zanfagna (vocals, tenor saxophone, acoustic guitar), Alex Sandman (electric and acoustic guitar, bass, vocals), Phil McGowan (drums), Mike Gruen (bass on "Ambivalent"), Chris Plante (piano, Fender Rhodes, melodica), Ben Alleman (Hammond B3 organ) and Doc Zig (mandolin, National resonator guitar).

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