The kind of ambient-drone music Mountains make suffers from the same kind of public-relations problem all post-minimalist art does: the old “my kid co...
David Morris - 2009年 03月 25日
I went to my local record shop to place a few orders the other day andmy friend who runs it asked if I had listened to this new record fromMountains. ...
Derek Miller - 2009年 03月 05日
Koen Holtkamp and Brendon Andereggare are two of the thousands who create music designed to flutter and hum away while you're focused on another task....
Tyler Parks - 2009年 03月 02日
How to describe and evaluate music that causes time to run in place and transforms space from optical to sensuous reality Music that is a ghostly, ov...
Andrew Gaerig - 2009年 02月 25日
Thrill Jockey claims that most of Choral, the third album from Brooklyn drone-duo Mountains, was recorded without overdubs, the group's guitars and or...
James Holloway - 2009年 02月 23日
It's perhaps fitting that Mountains’ Choral should come to me on a day when fat flakes of crystalised water have blanketed the capital and everyone's ...
Conrad Amenta - 2009年 02月 21日
I hope it’s not too sprawling a suggestion that contemporary ambient records aren’t that removed—conceptually or aesthetically—from their original pre...
Simon Gurney - 2009年 02月 20日
One quality of first class drone is the ability to fill up the space it’s being let out into, emanating from the speakers and flooding into every corn...
Brandon Bussolini - 2009年 02月 19日
The idea of deep or detailed listening is a useful one because it?s purposefully vague. That vagueness comes in part from being understandable without...
James Brubaker - 2009年 02月 18日
Some albums resist description. There's no formula in identifying what albums these might be. There are just some bands, some albums, some songs that ...