First off, Moving Mountains perform a post rock/alt rock/screamo blend that is quite fucking fantastic. This is their EP, four tracks around ten minutes each, all four of which are too good. The album starts off with "Foreword", which has a slow rhythmic intro that pretty much sets the mood for the whole album: This sounds happy, but we're dying inside. It then explodes into a heavily post rock influenced alternative rock sound that sounds super happy and upbeat, but for some reason really isn't. Then what's-his-nuts-vocalist (FUCK NAMES) comes in with his whiny vocals and the whole mood is set. Some dude lost his love or some shit, and is lost. The next song, is my personal favourite. It starts out pretty much the same as "Foreword", the main difference is that midway through "With One's Heart In One's Mouth" the fucking backup singer starts screaming, and there is so much raw emotion oozing out of my speakers that I really need tissues or something. It finishes with an ambient outro which for me, perfects the song. Ambience in a non-ambient album can be on or off, and here its mostly on. The beauty of this track is how emotional it is, how real it sounds and it gets me fucking pumped. The ambience calms me down and shows that this dude has screamed, he's calmed down, he's ready for "Armslength".
"Armslength" is an acoustic song about the metaphorical end of the world. It's kinda boring, and it's definitely the worst track on the EP, but shit-tits, I still love it. Near the beginning of the song, this bass drum beat comes in, sounding like a heartbeat, it slowly builds up, what's-his-nuts-drummer adding symbols crashes and other shit to make it really cool, then it just ends, and its only the guitar for about thirty seconds. Then it really kicks in, which whats-his-nuts-vocalist doing his yell/sing that is really powerful and he does all the time. It brings the ambient end of "With One's Heart in One's Mouth" and the acoustic intro of this song to a complete halt and is just driven by emotion. It's like what's-his-nuts-song-writer said "Fuck it" and handed all the writing over to nothing but raw emotion.
Now usually I'm not an emotional dude. I fucking hate. Everything. But there's something about this album that makes me go "Naw, fucking embrace your feelings 'n' shit, pass the peace pipe". Sure, this post and to some extent the previous post have been all about emotion, but fuck, music should be about emotion. Fuck your mainstream bullshit about how many chicks are on your dicks. On all your many dicks. Fuck your fake emotion about that girl you wanted to bone but couldn't because you're a faggot rapper with twelve peni (the plural for penis). This album takes all that shit and goes around it. The lyrics are heart-wrenching, the vocals are beautiful, the drumming sounds like a fucking heartbeat that slowly speeds up in every song then slowly dies only to be brought back to life for the perfect ending of the album; "Lights and Shapes".
I know I just finished saying that "With One's Heart in One's Mouth" was my favourite song, but fuck that. I'm listening to "Lights and Shapes" right now, and mother of fucking cocks, it's good. Anger, depression, happiness, and every other fucking emotion can be heard in what's-his-nuts-vocalists voice as he bleats a masterpiece of love and loss. I know, there are fucking thousands of songs about love and loss, but how many hit it right on the head? How many songs actually get the feeling of loving someone and knowing it could never happen down right? I know only a couple, and holy shit this song is one of them. It's practically the perfect love song, and it doesn't need to be a "slow song"
9/10
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y you so mad
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omg srry, i jst gt so angry n stf <3
ReplyDeleteyou swear too much. otherwise well done
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