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

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