am I the only one feeling A Mountain of One? or can I not use the search properly?

aw this poor thread

Okay I'm able to enthuse now. So the compilation is out in September right? Perhaps I can't wait that long. Not many record stores I know have "balearic" sections (yet) though.

I wish I knew what "Balearic Music" meant. I now sort of know it when I hear it, but that's not a very satisfying answer.

What in God's name does Balearic mean?

technically it's the kinda stuff alfredo would play in ibiza in the mid 80s. currently it just means sorta summery, islandy, smooth and mellow dance music with a bit of cheese and a bit of live instrumentation/acoustic guitar.

Vahid's description on the thread you hyperlinked sounds right, based on what I've heard so far. Sort of leftfield disco-y, druggy, syrupy soft rock songs.

So, is this comp really Balearic, or is it just an effort to palm off on a trendy genre name?

Oh, and back on point, those AMO1 songs on the MySpace page are so good.

I love this comment someone posted on a post I made on Beat Research back in the day:

'If you've heard someone like DJ Harvey play INXS's "need you tonight" in the moist middle of some of the underground euro beat tracks it actually grew out of, at a slow tempo, with sweaty smiling girls going crazy around you on a beach or in a basement, you will understand balearic."

i'll put this here too, now that we're actually using this thread:

sample of A Mountain Of One - Brown Piano (Studio Version):

http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/mp3/A%20Mountain%20Of%20One%20-%20Brown%20Piano%20Studio%20Version.mp3

Funny, it sounds exactly how I would think Studio covering AMO1 would sound.

I actually really love "People Without Love" - fabulous use of Fleetwood Mac's "Caroline", which I would have posted on my "tracks that should have new edits done" thread had AMO1 already kind of risen to challenge. But what is great about it is how it increasingly becomes AMO1's own track by the end, all the beautiful keyboard fills and mournful guitar over the original track's pseudo-african rhythm and christine mcvie's backing vocals. Gorgeous.

any news on their gig in stepney on thursday?

haha. holy shit. http://dreamchimney.com/tracks/17302

Fleetwood Mac "Caroline" from Tango In The Night
File Under: Sampled In A New Rock Song

Finally got around to picking up the final Buckingham Fleetwood Mac album and when Caroline started it sounded instantly familiar.

Seems A Mountain of One jacked the intro for their People Without Love track and used some other bits and pieces throughout the song. Definitely a great intro and an inspired sample for A Mountain of One.

and another one from dreamchimney http://dreamchimney.com/tracks/17298

A Mountian of One "Brown Piano (Studio Remake)"

that studio "remake" is really fucking good

reallllly fucking good

i wish i was more articulate, but TAKE MY WORD FOR IT

i think i wrote about it in ALL CAPS on the balearic thread

Jaxon is that "holy shit" as in "I can't believe they didn't know?"

Tango in the Night is such a balearic album.

nope. "holy shit" as in " i can't believe I didn't know"

i stopped at Tusk until a few weeks ago when i bought Mirage. still haven't moved forward, but will now. specially since it's usually so cheap

I wasn't sure because I wrote this upthread:

"I actually really love "People Without Love" - fabulous use of Fleetwood Mac's "Caroline", which I would have posted on my "tracks that should have new edits done" thread had AMO1 not already kind of risen to challenge. But what is great about it is how it increasingly becomes AMO1's own track by the end, all the beautiful keyboard fills and mournful guitar over the original track's pseudo-african rhythm and christine mcvie's backing vocals. Gorgeous."

Get Say You Will too!

New ep..."Institute of Joy"
Band's website says that the release date is today, the 19th.

http://www.normanrecords.com/images/covers/103960.jpg

· Stunning new material from cosmic rock
band A Mountain Of One which will feature on
next year’s album ‘Institute Of Joy’.
· Mixed by Danton Supple, the world renowned
producer behind Coldplay’s ‘X & Y’, and artists
such as The Cure and Morrissey the album will
feature additional production from Rub and
Tug and Map of Africa’s Thomas Bullock.
· The EP is strictly limited to 600 copies with
no repress and stunning artwork.

Tracklist:
Intro
Sky Is Folding
Outro
Who By Fire
Hail Pleasure

thanks 4 the inf0s

http://www.flexx.be/item/mth001

Hype! I thought the original "Brown Piano" was quite snoozy, so hopefully things get a bit more excitable this time around.

Oh JOY! It's streaming on their myspace page now...

http://www.myspace.com/amountainofone

The new album will be out the first week of June according to an interview with Mo Morris found here..

http://amountainofone.oki-ni.com/interviews-2/

ive seen it around online. it has 14 tracks.

this is the bio for it

A Mountain Of One have produced one of the albums of the year.'Institute Of Joy' is one of the
most ambitious, direct and phenomenal records for a long time.

Following the release and a string of highly sought after 12s and the 'Collected Works' CD that
brought together the bands first three EPs, the band have been in studio for the past year putting
together this, 'Institute Of Joy'.

This album feels like it could wrap itself round the world. It's a massive achievement, a record
that looks through the past to discover the future, a musical trip that for people to lose
themselves in, ITs music for the mind and soul, the work of a band at the peak of their powers
and phenomenally creative.

It's the work of two people - Mo Morris and Zeben Jameson - that know music passionately and
instinctively. It's a modern day classic. Much more than the sum of its vast influences, A
Mountain Of One have made a psychedelic rock record for 2009.

www.myspace.com/amountainofone

That's some Deep Purple Prose there. But I do like this group a lot. They had an EP earlier this year that didn't show up on eMusic, so I'm not hopeful about the new one, either.

is Leo Zero one of those 2 guys?

if hes not hes a big fat liar

will check this album out now

just got this, look forward to checking it out.

is Leo Zero one of those 2 guys?

Leo Elstob, who used to be in the Chicane offshoot "Disco Citizens" was certainly involved in Collected Works. Don't know if he's on this.

Found it. Will check it out later today

what do people think of it?

I don't see how this is interesting. It sounds like a weak 70s rock album with a terrible vocalist ruining every track with unnecessary lyrics. The Meanderthals album is about 100X better than this AMO1 thing.

these guys are weird; i kind of dig the ambitious overkill and their constant over-reaching (tons of epics, sprawling style/sound) but none of their tracks have had any staying power for me except the gorgeous instrumental "here goes nothing"... and their attempts at guitar solos are pretty awful (as are most of the vocals)

"institute of joy" leans further on the MOJO-rock end of things.. not very groovy

i like the meanderthals album ok but the tracks are so similar and sound kind of like they're on auto-pilot, whereas AMO1 are constantly embarrassing themselves trying out new things.

"whereas AMO1 are constantly embarrassing themselves trying out new things."

Ha this is so true, it captures my mixed feelings of cringing and admiration when they're at their worst (e.g. "Innocent Line").

Haven't heard the new one but I wish they'd go back to the sound of their first EP.

Ha! I think Innocent Line is one of my favorite songs on the debut. It pleases my inner 70s arena-rock fan. Stupid lyrics, but I'm not listening to AMO1 for lyrics.

Maybe it's just the combined back-to-back heft of "Innocent Line" and "Innocent Reprise" that strikes me as rather corpulent.

Ha! I think Innocent Line is one of my favorite songs on the debut. It pleases my inner 70s arena-rock fan. Stupid lyrics, but I'm not listening to AMO1 for lyrics.

truth.

I always wince at the bit in people without love where he goes "people without love are married to the CAGE!!"

the wince worthy lyrics add to the feel of 70s rock though.
They probably sound amazing on 70s Californian cocaine though...

I'd like this an awful lot more were it not for the ridiculous hyperbole. "One of the
most ambitious, direct and phenomenal records for a long time" = "yeh, it's OK".

They probably sound amazing on 70s Californian cocaine though...

umm, forgive the innocence, doesn't everything ?

Not Alvin and the Chipmunks. Or Ministry. Or New Kids On The Block (maybe).

grimly whos putting out that hyperbole?!

ill say this--i like this band a lot, but my tolerance would drop SHARPLY if they went from this funny little group exploring the corners of an under-used set of tropes to this hugely hyped future-of-music band

I thought it was "people without love are married to the CAVE!!"

which may be just as cringeworthy but if you are married to nick cave he *is* kind of a downer just think abuot it

my tolerance would drop SHARPLY if they went from this funny little group exploring the corners of an under-used set of tropes to this hugely hyped future-of-music band

Yeah. You never know, but I'd guess there's little chance of this happening (as much as the band's publicist wishes it would).

I think Innocent Line is the song with the wordless wall-o-vocal-harmony in the chorus that hit all the right nostalgic buttons for me. Or maybe I'm on 70s Californian cocaine.

eh, i guess its all a matter of perspective anyway--w/in the narrow world of beardearica i suppose they already are pretty well-hyped, and on the other hand its unlikely theyre ever going to hit the hot 100.

but i dont really even want them to make the 'crossover' into stereogum territory; they work so much better in the context of re-discovered 70s AOR and its kin than i think they would up next to fleet foxes or tv on the radio or whoever.

not that this is really a fear, or that i would actually stop listening to them--i just mean that their hilarious lyrics and... flamboyant touches are way, way more forgiveable so long as theyre not blog darlings. which maybe they are already, i dunno.

grimly whos putting out that hyperbole?!

Scroll up to the biog thing thing Pfunk posted!

thats too hard to do

but, dude.

can you find a publicist-written band biography that doesnt overpromise like that?

In a former life, I used to get hundreds of those a week. That's one of the most, umm, enthusiastic I've seen.

beardearica

not sure if it's because i'm on some great 00's Californian coffee, but i'm in love w/this word

ill say this--i like this band a lot, but my tolerance would drop SHARPLY if they went from this funny little group exploring the corners of an under-used set of tropes to this hugely hyped future-of-music band
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i went from loving Studio when i felt this to kinda feeling bleh about them when all these anglophiles started hyping them as the new cure/talk talk/ar kane/whatevs band

I can relate, but in fairness, that's not Studio's fault. It isn't like they've wrapped themselves in that praise in some cynical attempt to capitalize on 80s nostalgia; they're just doing what they do.

so having listened to the new album--definitely not feeling it like i was the 2 EPs... theres no 'people without love' or 'freefall' which were my 2 faves. but still hits a certain humid-evening sweet spot.

was all set to pick this up today without hearing any of it.
only to realise its come out in digipack packaging.
yuck.
however, it is on spotify already.

Just picked up tickets to see these guys at the scala with mike simonetti, desire and glass candy in november. If I can put up with the tyorrent of turds that will be in the scala on a saturday i'll have a blinder

well, these albums are the perfect soundtrack for today while pottering in the garden.
really wish they had made some more music.

i was thinking about their beefy edit of Ian Hunter's "bastard" just the other day..

UM WHAT

https://mixmag.net/read/a-mountain-of-one-new-track-custards-last-stand-news

A-side sounds excellent on first listen - very much in the vein of the first EP. B-side sounds like an overwrought sketch but I might get into it.

this Zei Orangen album from Kris Baha and Dreams is like the direction I had hoped AMo1 would go… leaning more to the psychedelic slowish tempo 80s dance like “big man restless”, or like “shake the mind” rather than the talk talk thing they kinda leaned into

https://dieorangen.bandcamp.com/album/zwei-orangen