DOWNLOAD: Mountains - Thousand Square
Building on a stack of layered, rotating synthesizer tones, Mountains provides yet another demonstration of drone mastery on "Thousand Square." The track, off the group's new Air Museum LP, approximates Mountains's intense live experience with deliberately slow pacing, subtle loops that build emotional resonance and nods to German sound pioneers like Popol Vuh. Compared to past conquests, where linear tracks crescendo into noisy stratospheres, Mountains explores rhythm in more depth than ever here. Sure, it's a heady track with no vocals or traditional drumbeat, but the cumulative effect reaches something otherworldly. Air Museum is available now via Thrill Jockey.
