Koen Holtkamp

Get Lost In Mountains' New Album Centralia, Because That's the Point

Eight years in, Mountains albums arrive with certain expectations attached. There will be gently melancholy expanses of sound. There will be lapping-wave dissolves and cross fades caulked with spectral drone. There will be reed-rustling whispers and dry-heaving synthesizers. There will be the illusi ... More >>

Download: Skeletons' Road Rage Rumination "More Than The One Thing"

Though originally birthed in Oberlin, Skeletons are a quintessential New York amalgam, guided by a fluttery art-jazz shimmer, a minimalist aesthetic, a grab bag of post-punk grooves and those disjunctive melodies currently turning the underground into a 12-tone headfuck (cf. Dirty Projectors, Tyond ... More >>

Moving Mountains

The Brooklyn duo gets aggressive with sound on Air Museum

Download: Mountains' Bubbly "Thousand Square"

Jon Leone​Meditative blisscrafters Mountains are Brooklyn's finest young purveyors of pillowy drifts, true masters of the airy drone. Over six fantastically fluffy years, Brendon Anderegg and Koen Holtkamp have explored different combinations of otherworldy hum and fluttery post-Fahey acoustic ... More >>

JAMES BLACKSHAW

Mountains Conjure Intangibles, Do Not Cover 'Mississippi Queen'

A beguiling acoustic + effects duo get expansive

Mountains