Most of Centralia was recorded by Holtkamp and Anderegg at Telescope Recording in Brooklyn, with the exception of the side-long “Propeller” and“Liana,” which are recordings of live shows later augmented with additionalinstrumentation. The duo recorded, edited, and mixed everything themselves,creating a sonic and aesthetic continuity only achievable through suchfastidious and insular methods. Be it the gently melodic acoustic guitar and keyboard of “Tilt” or the steady, subtle pulsating haze of “Living Lens,” the album is as sonically rich as it is compositionally diverse.
Centralia is the most fully realized Mountains album, it encompasses everything Mountains represents, from the analog electronic sound of Air Museum, to the gentle warmth and improvised grandeur of Choral. Mountains are utterly singular in their ability to combine such varied and complex sources into such delicately detailed songs of perceived simple pastoral ambience.
For all the years I've been on here, I've never reviewed anything on Amazon before, but I'm so impressed by this record I wanted to let other people know about it. As well as having a brilliant name, Mountains have made a brilliant record - I'd never really heard of them before this album, but I liked the sound of it from the reviews I'd read and took the chance. Sound-wise, it's dense, complex and layered, with a mix of ambient drone, synths, electric and acoustic guitar washing over each other. At times it's stately and glacial, with subtle and well-timed changes in tone and key being deployed to fairly devastating effect. At other times the music is complicated and busy, looping and burbling and falling in on itself. Despite the differences in structure and the the differening instrumentation used, all seven of the extended tracks on the album hang together brilliantly and it is at once relaxing and re-invogorating, drawing you deeper and deeper in to its self-contained world of sound. Highly enjoyable.
una genialidad realmente interesante... para sentarse, cerrar los ojos y disfrutar la edición es sencilla pero bastante atractiva, es sonido una pasada
Pero no entiendo muy bien como Thrill Jockey, nada más y nada menos, se las apaña para reeditar un vinilo que salió en 2013 y que duraba algo más de 66 minutos y ahora, lo mutilan y meten justo lo que cabe en un vinilo normal, y aún lo comprendo menos cuando el disco está a la altura de lo mejor de STARS OF LID, Emerals o los mismos CLUSTER. Discazo en edición ruina y tacaña.