Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free

Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free is the third studio album by folk supergroup Bonny Light Horseman, released on June 7, 2024, through Jagjaguwar. It received positive reviews from critics.

Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free
Studio album by Bonny Light Horseman
Released	June 7, 2024 (2024-06-07)
Studio	Levis Corner House, Ballydehob, Ireland
Genre	Folk
Length	63:16
Label	Jagjaguwar
Bonny Light Horseman chronology
Rolling Golden Holy (2022) Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free (2024)

Writing and recording

The album was written over the span of five months. Most of the album was recorded at the Levis Corner House pub in Ballydehob, Ireland, with additional recording taking place in Los Angeles.

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	85/100
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Exclaim!	8/10
Mojo
Paste	7.9/10
Uncut	9/10

According to the review aggregator Metacritic, Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free received "universal acclaim" based on a weighted average score of 85 out of 100 from 7 critic scores.

Reviewing the album for AllMusic, Mark Deming called it "is state-of-the-art contemporary pop-folk" and felt that, "with each LP Bonny Light Horseman deliver stronger work; deciding to put their songwriting chops to work may be the smartest thing they've done to date." Mojo commented that "Bonny Light Horseman probably could've said just as much over half the tracks, but the fact they had the courage to keep digging ever deeper into their emotional turbulence has bourne spectacular results", while Uncut felt that "only a couple of tracks into Bonny Light Horseman's third album, it's clear this is something special. Beauty erupts from the vocal harmonies of Eric Johnson and Anais Mitchell, who lift the Technicolor folk-rock of 'Lover Take It Easy' into something close to heaven. And then it keeps getting better".

Eric R. Danton of Paste wrote that there is "scarcely a dud among the 18 songs" and "though the album feels long at 63 minutes, Johnson, Kaufman and Mitchell fill that time with reflections on longing, growing older and a pastoral kind of life—all rendered in the soft light and lengthening shadows of a late summer afternoon fading toward evening". Reviewing the album for Exclaim!, Anthony Boire concluded that "the few moments of experimentation are outweighed by an assured grasp of traditional instrumentation, and it works out for the better. This is a well-travelled band firing on all cylinders."

Year-end lists

Select year-end rankings for Keep Me On Your Mind/See You Free

Publication/critic	Accolade	Rank	Ref.
BBC Radio 6 Music	26 Albums of the Year 2024	-
Rough Trade UK	Albums of the Year 2024	74
Uncut	80 Best Albums of 2024	53

Track listing

All tracks are written by Anaïs Mitchell, Eric D. Johnson, and Josh David Kaufman, except where noted.

Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Keep Me on Your Mind"	3:17
2.	"Lover Take It Easy"	3:31
3.	"I Know You Know"	3:19
4.	"Grinch / Funeral" (Joseph O'Leary)	0:08
5.	"Old Dutch"	5:50
6.	"When I Was Younger"	3:17
7.	"Waiting and Waiting"	3:24
8.	"Hare and Hound"	2:23
9.	"Rock the Cradle"	3:42
10.	"Singing to the Mandolin"	3:58
11.	"The Clover"	3:37
12.	"Into the O"	2:48
13.	"Don't Know Why You Move Me"	2:50
14.	"Speak to Me Muse"	3:00
15.	"Think of the Royalties, Lads" (O'Leary)	0:35
16.	"Tumblin Down"	3:29
17.	"I Wanna Be Where You Are"	3:27
18.	"Over the Pass"	3:08
19.	"Your Arms (All the Time)"	2:44
20.	"See You Free" (Mitchell, Johnson, Kaufman, Charles Ralston, James Bates)	4:49
Total length:		63:16

Personnel

Bonny Light Horseman

• Anaïs Mitchell – vocals (tracks 1–3, 5–14, 16–20), guitar (3, 5, 8–11, 16, 18, 19)
• Eric D. Johnson – vocals (tracks 1–3, 5–14, 16–20), guitar (3, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14, 16, 18), synthesizer (3, 7, 11), Wurlitzer (5, 17), piano (5, 20), banjo (8, 9)
• Josh Kaufman – production (all tracks), guitar (tracks 1, 3, 5–12, 16–18), piano (2, 6, 7, 14, 17–19), Wurlitzer (3, 7, 9, 10, 13), mandolin (3, 8, 18), vocals (5, 8–10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20), synthesizer (5, 17, 20), harmonica (5, 17), harmonium (7, 12), organ (10, 11, 17, 18, 20), bass (10, 17, 20); keyboards, loops (10); tambourine (12), Hammond organ (16), vibraphone (19)

Additional musicians

• JT Bates – drums (tracks 1–3, 5–14, 16–20), percussion (2, 3, 5, 7–11, 13, 14, 16, 18–20), vocals (5, 14), congas (7)
• Mike Lewis – bass (tracks 1, 3, 12, 13, 16–18), saxophone (2, 10, 14), vocals (14)
• Annie Nero – bass (tracks 2, 19), vocals (2)
• Nathan Vanderpool – vocals (tracks 2, 5, 14), guitar (18)
• Cameron Ralston – bass (tracks 5–9, 11, 14), vocals (5, 14), guitar (19)
• Levis Town Chorus – vocals (tracks 5, 6, 8, 9, 14)
• Molly O'Mahony – tambourine (track 5)
• Gillian Pelkonen – vocals (track 5)

Technical

• D. James Goodwin – mastering, mixing
• Bella Blasko – engineering
• Gillian Pelkonen – engineering
• Nathan Vanderpool – engineering

Charts

Chart performance for Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free

Chart (2024)	Peak position
Scottish Albums (OCC)	36
Swedish Physical Albums (Sverigetopplistan)	14
UK Album Downloads (OCC)	45
UK Independent Albums (OCC)	9