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The Manti Graft

Almanac of June
Artist
Almanac of June
Indie / Alternative3:15April 21, 2026
0:00 3:15

Influenced by Sufjan Stevens, Joanna Newsom, Nico Muhly, Fleet Foxes. Asaariah Collett grew up a stonemason's son in Manti, Utah, learning to play Mormon hymns on his great-grandfather's banjo. At sixteen, his world fractured when his older brother was excommunicated. This rupture became the quiet center of his work as Almanac of June, crafting intricate chamber-folk about the architecture of faith and the ghosts it leaves behind. The songs were written in the back rooms of a rare bookstore in Salt Lake City before he moved to a small apartment in Burlington, Vermont, where he still lives.

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
The weak light from your phone on Doctrine and Covenants
Paints a new firmament across the bedroom wall.
We are grafting something wild onto a dying rootstock, love,
Ignoring the frost that is coming with the fall.
You trace the asphalt lines on the map of Sanpete County,
Your breath, a warm fog against the windowpane.

[Chorus]
This isn't a lie, it's a testimony.
You're the only verse I choose to memorize.
If this is a sin, it's a holy ceremony,
My new religion is the choir of your sighs.

[Verse 2]
One half-empty glass of lukewarm tap water.
The spine of a book about high-desert flowers.
His wool coat on the hook, still smells of sagebrush after rain.
Two sets of keys on the linoleum for hours.

[Bridge]
"He doesn't see you bloom," you said last Tuesday, 3 AM.
"A perennial grief locked under frozen ground."

[Chorus]
This isn't a lie, it's a testimony.
You're the only verse I choose to memorize.
If this is a sin, it's a holy ceremony,
My new religion is the choir of your sighs.

[Outro]
A testimony...
A testimony...

About Almanac of June

Asaariah Collett grew up a stonemason's son in Manti, Utah, learning to play Mormon hymns on his great-grandfather's banjo. At sixteen, his world fractured when his older brother was excommunicated. This rupture became the quiet center of his work as Almanac of June, crafting intricate chamber-folk about the architecture of faith and the ghosts it leaves behind. The songs were written in the back…

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