Welcome to the sound of
A.p. Harbor
The Hum of a Dreaming Moon
Surreal, dreamlike, and absurdist lyrics-as-poetry weave together fact and fable in this debut collection from A.p. Harbor: pen name of Appalachian songwriter Andrew Preston. Illustrated in doodles and fragments by bandmate Mary Morris, this hodgepodge of story-songs explores love, nature, magic, family, science, and the humdrum of everyday life. This collection features the entire discography of A.p. Harbor, chronicling lyrics and recording info from 2005 to 2025.
"This collection is a bubble of joy rising in a parallel universe-built from our detritus but spinning free, weird, and luminous. Each song is sticky with meaning, their whimsy and heartbreak braided into something whole. It's nursery rhyme meets celestial funk: goats, bees, men in trucks, and a drunk sense of wonder. I felt like I knew it already, like I'd dreamed it before."
--Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr., award winning author of bestseller Gay Poems for Red States
"A.p. Harbor's songs sound like a picture book."
--George Ella Lyon, award winning author and Kentucky Poet Laureate, 2015-16
"The Hum of a Dreaming Moon is a spellbound hymn for the queer, the haunted, and the tender-hearted. A.p. Harbor weaves Appalachian grit, dream logic, and raw emotional clarity into a collection that feels part gospel, part ghost story, part love letter. These poems and lyrics pulse with strange beauty, brutal honesty, and a voice that is unmistakable. This is a book you feel as much as you read. It is one that stays with you."
--Amy Le Ann Richardson, author of Who You Grow Into and Out of Places