One thing I love about Mountain Movers is their ability to be shapeshifters. Their records often cover plenty of ground, but the music never feels disjointed or out of place. “Reclamation Yard,” from their upcoming album Walking After Dark, astral travels through a third-eye continuum. Eben Kling and Aude Jomini (of FEED New Haven) craft one of the best videos of 2024 so far with mesmerizing visual spells that heighten the bass-and-pulse explorations of “Reclamation Yard.”
Set in a digital recreation of Mountain Movers’ Dan Greene’s mythological Blue Fort, Kling and Jomini blur lines between reality and liquid dreams, casting an icy gloss on this textured surreality. Bass lines crawl and repeat while cutting guitar leads etch our cryptic symbology with sound, matching the moving imagery flowing in the video’s background. Mbira patterns coalesce before falling apart, adding to the pointillist, hypnotic scrawl. “Reclamation Yard” is heady from beginning to end, but Mountain Movers’ ability to channel something beyond, to open our minds with these searching, aural opiates forever lives in the ether. Pure magic.
Walking After Dark will be released on May 17 by Trouble In Mind. Pre-order HERE.
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