Monday, March 02, 2009

Mountains' blissful shoegaze drone

"…Choral sometimes feels staid and a little postcard-y: a pretty gesture that fails to eclipse the experience of actually going somewhere. That's OK: The best parts of Choral — the title track, "Melodica", most of "Add Infinity"— suggest that the band's moniker refers less to the vistas their music may or may not evoke and instead to the shifting strata of sound they create. On Choral, Mountains arrange those layers in ways just subtle and precise enough to shift your headspace."


SOURCE:
Pitchfork