The Mountain Movers - We’ve Walked In Hell And There Is Life After Death

Fortuna Pop

Daniel Greene, singer and songwriter of The Mountain Movers, has the Devil on his back and there seems to be little to be done to get him off. Coupling an indie rock sensibility with the country tradition of using song to scrutinise one’s own damnation, the band imbue the songs with bar-room blues and even some mellow Seventies funk to give the album a classic, if somewhat safe, feel. The catchy pop of songs like ‘Not Quite Yet’ belie the pessimistic assuredness of the words, but the drunken swagger of ‘Leave a Light On’, with its clambering piano and slurring trumpet, sets a pleasurably apt tone for a fragile state of mind. Matt Nesbitt

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DOWNLOAD: ‘I MET THE DEVIL ON A BUS’, ‘LEAVE A LIGHT ON’.
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