World What World

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RIYL: White Heaven, Les Rallizes Denudes, Headroom, Düngen, Heron Oblivion, Comets On Fire, The Renderers, Bardo Pond.

World What World is released on cassette, black vinyl and a limited Purple Majesty colour vinyl which is for Indies only while supplies last. New Haven quartets eighth album (third for Trouble In Mind).

Guitarist Kryssi Battalene also leads the band Headroom.

Mountain Movers arguably are the perfect band for all the true heads out there. The New Haven quartet have been at it for 15 years, and the newest lineup (now at it for well over a decade; vocalist/guitarist Dan Greene, bassist Rick Omonte, guitarist Kryssi Battalene and drummer Ross Menze) have firmly grasped what it takes to fry brains; achingly beautiful melodies buoyed by a life raft of white-hot guitar scree and mind-melting feedback. World What World is the bands eighth album and third for Trouble In Mind Records.

World What World is the newest chapter of the groups continued explorations and efforts to refine their sound. The lyrics of World What Worlds songs all imply a protagonist on a quest; the title itself is an implied query with no question mark; is it a question, or a statement?. The one-two punch of opener I Wanna See The Sun and Final Sunset lay out whats in store; Crazy Horse-inspired sandpaper melodies sit comfortably next to improvised, PSF-influenced six-string ragers.

The group performs together effortlessly and telepathically, subverting the loud/quiet/loud dynamic that has saturated independent music since the late-Eighties. The loud parts and quiet parts are like waves; indistinguishable from each other, creating a fluid dynamism and intensity that swallows the listener up in its current, sweeping it toward oblivion. Hyperbole, you say? Watch out for midway through Then The Moon when the tunes lilting waltz pivots into a casually blistering solo by Battalene before fading into the melancholic Haunted Eyes beckoning you with a mournful sidelong glance. Side Two opens with Staggering With A Lantern, an elegant, lumbering instrumental improvisation again showcasing the synergistic shredding of the groups guitarists. The sticky lyrical hooks and sideways jangle of Way Back To The World and The Last Citys midnight-hour, mellow singe come next, before concluding World What Worlds journey with Flock of Swans. The song is the perfect closer and culmination of the albums mission statement. The subjects that populate Greenes songs and visual imagery augment his elegiac lyrics, awash in magical realism and fantastic symbolism; knights, fighters, dragons, masks. Poetic missives are launched from the heart straight into the neural pathways, guided by the rhythm sections otherworldly chemistry and Battalenes masterful control over her instrument. Mountain Movers have been at it too long to care about acclaim. They do it because the music calls out to them, and they let it carry them away.