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Mountains - Air Museum

Review by Philip Bloomfield

There are plenty of bands who sound like Emeralds; there are precious few who sounded like Mountains.»

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cd version comes in a 4 panel mini-lp style gatefold package. 'air museum' is the long awaited new album from mountains. mountains is brendon anderegg and koen holtkamp, two sonic explorers whose long history, shared philosophies, and love of sculpting sound,
has resulted in some of the most densely layered and blissful music crafted in recent memory. 'air museum' blurs the lines between acoustic and electronic music even more without sacrificing melody or the delicacy of their sound. it is an album of firsts. it was the first album that the acoustic instruments were not processed via a computer. instead, the processing of the instrumentation (acoustic and electric guitar, cello, accordion, piano, bass etc.) was done using a variety of pedals, modular synths, and other analog techniques. while acoustic instruments were used extensively, the album manifests itself sonically as their most 'electronic' record yet.
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