Has there ever been a pop band with the word mountain in its name? The word always implies something bigger. On Strange Mountain’s Slow Midnight, you don’t hear the recording techniques or the studio in the music: you hear something else entirely, and it’s the size of the universe. And as such, no individual sound can be grounded or minimized into something our brain interprets as an instrument or note or melody. These soundscapes are all movement without time. And by the end of these five tracks, you will have been both everywhere else and exactly where you started.
[Visit full site to view media]Slow Midnight by Strange Mountain
Slow Midnight is out now on Chicago’s always excellent Lillerne Tapes.
• Strange Mountain: http://strangemountainmusic.bandcamp.com
• Lillerne Tapes: http://www.lillernetapes.com