A long car drive, down roads I have never travelled. An early fall evening. The sun is going down, a little earlier than it went down the day before. Tonight was the first night I noticed the days were getting shorter. Driving west, I step on the accelerator, chasing the sunset, trying to make this last indian summer evening last.
The explosions of music and beauty that is the album Pneuma is what I believe the above would sound like if it was turned into electricity and passed through a mix board. The band takes the art form behind making an album and raises the bar. Few albums are out there that I can listen to all the way through. Most of them I have to skip a song or two because they don’t fit.
I originally discovered this band while hopping around on YouTube. I stumbled across a video by a user named Charlatantric. The video was about the 100 greatest songs of all time, and I watched it because it didn’t have the normal things that most 100 greatest albums have. The video was put together with some great stock footage of fight scenes from B movies and had a soundtrack of some bands I have heard of, and some bands I haven’t heard of until then. One of those bands was Moving Mountains, and I was drawn to listen to more of their music. It just happened that Charlatantric also enjoyed the band and had made a couple of videos just for Moving Mountain’s songs.
Just about a month ago the band passed through Michigan while they were on tour with Say Anything. They came to Clutch Cargo’s in Pontiac. I picked up the two CD’s that they were selling, Pneuma and Foreword. The set was great. I finished work later that night, got to say hi to the lead singer
Moving Mountains – Ode We Will Bury Ourselves by user6399081
You can not listen to these three songs and make a complete decision about this band. I only put them up to help you understand their sound. You must listen to their albums from beginning to end. There is no other way to do it. You must do this or else you might fail to recognize the full scope of their music. It has an epic sound to it. The complete album is made up of many things; an up, a down, a reckoning, a lesson learned, a love lost, a gentle tragedy, and a sonic battle brought forth on the audience’s eardrums.
A drive west on a fall evening. With friends.
Moving Mountains – Sol Solis by user6399081
