Friday, 28 March 2014

Mountainside – Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish, and Short


@Planetmosh @AnybodyBC reviews 'Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish, and Short' by Mountainside Some bands make an album every year or every second year. Well, not in the case of Mountainside. It's almost six years since they released 'All About Time'. In a DIY way, during all that time, band was not only working on the stage but@Planetmosh @AnybodyBC reviews 'Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish, and Short' by Mountainside Some bands make an album every year or every second year. Well, not in the case of Mountainside. It's almost six years since they released 'All About Time'. In a DIY way, during all that time, band was not only working on the stage but with material for the new album. Over this sextet of years, I was going to their concerts, following the new songs they played and guessing what would go onto the album.  After listening to 'Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish, and Short' I was taken by surprise. 'Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish, and Short' by Mountainside For many bands you can easily label as 'doom metal', 'hard rock', 'sludge metal' and put them one the shelf next to similar ones. It is almost impossible to do so with Mountainside. The guys started with a funny punk rock sound, continued with a quite melodic rock and now with their new album they are somewhere in between the 'sludge', 'experimental', 'progressive rock' and 'post rock'. The album cover and the CD case is the first thing worth to mention. If you are fed up with usual plastic cases or [...]

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