Between his last album Daytime Ghost and his next release, Jake Mann has been releasing the “Sediment Series” of EPs, “Compiled ideas, musical tangents…the good stuff that didn’t make it onto an ‘official’ release.” While the first two have been limited edition CDrs, Jake’s giving away the new Valdez EP, featuring three new songs and a reworked “Our 1st Assumptions Were Correct” (from Daytime Ghost). Mann and band The Upper Hand (Aaron Bellamy on guitar and trumpet; Dan Baber on drums, percussion, and vocals) recorded the tracks with Max Hart (We Are Scientists, High Speed Scene) as they plot out their next full-length album.