Monday, July 19th at High Noon Saloon
Mountain Man is actually the first act of this night that I had heard of. I've been a huge fan of the resurgence of “mountain music” since I listened to the “O Brother, Where art Thou?”'s soundtrack. Mountain Man would have sound at home beside Alison Krauss. Mountain Man is composed of Molly Erin Sarle, Alexandra Sauser-Monnig, and Amelia Randall Meath. Three unique sounding voices provide the rhythm for every song these women sing with little to no instruments as support. The first song I heard by them was “Dog Song” which starts off with one voice and no music. Soon a second voice joins the first, sounding completely different even sometimes on a different key but still able to harmonize perfectly with the first. The third “voice” that makes this song is silence, which provides this sound of nothing that the voices keep diving in and out of. The second song that I have heard from them is “Animal Tracks” and this has been a more popular song on the music blogs out there. It adds only a banjo to their voices, keeping the song light and simple and also captivating at the same time. Hearing these women perform these songs live will be something that I'm sure will take your breath away.CHECK OUT THIS INTERVIEW OF THEM.
Twin Sister is an experimental chillwave band from Long Island. I have to admit, this is the only band I feel iffy about not liking although I really do love their music. And you can tell that they put a lot of time into their dreamy, trippy sounds. But when their lead singer comes in and her voice becomes the focus of the song, you lose me. I can understand that it is really hard to combine the perfect sounding vocals with such music, especially if you aren't distorting the vocals through a vocoder or with heavy reverb. The songs I heard without vocals or before the vocals started were amazing. I'm also going to give them leeway where I think they recorded the songs on their own and it could just be the vocals were not well balanced with the rest of the songs.
Bear in Heaven's first album, Red Bloom of the Boom is as experimental as you can get. With either a chord being played for an extended amount of time or just plain dead air in the middle of the song, I can see how it may be hard for many people to enjoy this album. The great thing about it is you can tell they really don't mind trying something different and don't mind changing the sound of a song 4 or 5 times before the song is over. With their latest release, Beast Rest Forth Mouth, they have been able to hone in that experimental sound into something that is really amazing to hear. Great vocals and a surreal yet familiar soundscape lends the listener to feel he or she is having a spirtual moment without feeling like it necessarily is caused by some Acid trip. The songs are beautifully created bringing pop, psychedelic and folk together all in one.
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