Yeah, a group of three girls called Mountain Man. They sound as old as the hills and as current as some micro-genre that doesn't have a stupid name yet. With woodsy acoustic guitars and lilting, reverbed harmonies, the Bennington, Vt.-based trio of Molly Erin Sarle, Alexandra Sauser-Monnig, and Amelia Randall Meath set up camp between the old-timey lilt of Alela Diane or Fleet Foxes and the laid-back lo-fi vibes of Underwater Peoples pals like Real Estate or Julian Lynch. All that said, nothing about Mountain Man's nostalgic underneath-the-stars simplicity really grabbed me until I heard a cover of "Animal Tracks" by Alex Bleeker and the Freaks. Where Bleeker's version rides in on enough Crazy Horse-type guitar to inspire another three Kurt Vile albums, Mountain Man's unadorned original foregrounds earnest vocals, concrete sensory details, and an equally sturdy melody.
(pitchfork)
To me... not groundbreaking but certainly good listening. Nowhere as affected as Joanna Newsome but
still carries the beauty and lilt. Certainly more original than the 'Freaks' original. ( And YES, Alex Bleeker's band is copping my favorite sort of Neil Young song as a concept. To sum up, they should have named themselves...'Will To Love'... or maybe 'The Old Laughing Lady'! Sure I like what sounds are coming from Bleeker's LP, it's just lazy plagiarism.
Listen/download to Animal Tracks mp3 HERE
Hear whole LP or name your own price for full LP download!here .
(how cool is that?)
Yeah, a group of three girls called Mountain Man. They sound as old as the hills and as current as some micro-genre that doesn't have a stupid name yet. With woodsy acoustic guitars and lilting, reverbed harmonies, the Bennington, Vt.-based trio of Molly Erin Sarle, Alexandra Sauser-Monnig, and Amelia Randall Meath set up camp between the old-timey lilt of Alela Diane or Fleet Foxes and the laid-back lo-fi vibes of Underwater Peoples pals like Real Estate or Julian Lynch. All that said, nothing about Mountain Man's nostalgic underneath-the-stars simplicity really grabbed me until I heard a cover of "Animal Tracks" by Alex Bleeker and the Freaks. Where Bleeker's version rides in on enough Crazy Horse-type guitar to inspire another three Kurt Vile albums, Mountain Man's unadorned original foregrounds earnest vocals, concrete sensory details, and an equally sturdy melody.
(pitchfork)
To me... not groundbreaking but certainly good listening. Nowhere as affected as Joanna Newsome but
still carries the beauty and lilt. Certainly more original than the 'Freaks' original. ( And YES, Alex Bleeker's band is copping my favorite sort of Neil Young song as a concept. To sum up, they should have named themselves...'Will To Love'... or maybe 'The Old Laughing Lady'! Sure I like what sounds are coming from Bleeker's LP, it's just lazy plagiarism.
Listen/download to Animal Tracks mp3 HERE
Hear whole LP or name your own price for full LP download!here .
(how cool is that?)
