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The Green Mist’s style sits somewhere between alt. Country and Stoner rock. Melodic story-telling songs are performed over old-time waltz signatures but the flip-side changes pace to blistering, sonic rock in the vein of Neil Young’s Crazy Horse. TGM’s approach relies on the folk, blues and cowboy song traditions to shape a set of swaggering, bar-room songs through to big instrumental pieces which create filmic atmospheres in the way not dissimilar to a David Lynch film. Poulson’s lyrics come peppered by personal journeys such as travelling back to spend time in the southern forests of Tasmania, “walk amongst the ancients, breathe in the changing air” then there’s a girl named Adelaide, there’ s a runaway psychotic, the story of John Walker Lindh – the American Taliban, there’s response to the rise of the militarised world, the struggle of individuals such as asbestos victim/campaigner Bernie Banton. Along this journey…“roadside graves, flowers & notes”, the pain of taken home a