Speck Mountain

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I Feel Eternal 00:00 Tools
Shame On The Soul 00:00 Tools
Some Sweet Relief 00:00 Tools
Summer Above 00:00 Tools
Hey Moon 00:00 Tools
Fidelity Shake 00:00 Tools
Stockholm 00:00 Tools
Twinlines 00:00 Tools
Backsliding 00:00 Tools
Angela 00:00 Tools
Slow So Long 00:00 Tools
Backslider 00:00 Tools
Sister Water 00:00 Tools
Badwater 00:00 Tools
Girl Out West 00:00 Tools
Blood Is Clean 00:00 Tools
Flares 00:00 Tools
Caught Up 00:00 Tools
Chlorine Fields 00:00 Tools
Coldpoint 00:00 Tools
Live It Down 00:00 Tools
Fjord Song 00:00 Tools
Young Eyes 00:00 Tools
No Words 00:00 Tools
Speck Mountain - Some Sweet Relief 00:00 Tools
Watch the Storm 00:00 Tools
Hey-moon 00:00 Tools
Backslide 00:00 Tools
Speck Mountain - Badwater 00:00 Tools
Run Honey Run 00:00 Tools
Lies 00:00 Tools
Young Eyes Theme 00:00 Tools
'Slow So Long' 00:00 Tools
Backsliding (MC Demo) 00:00 Tools
Run, Honey, Run 00:00 Tools
Speck Mountain - Stockholm 00:00 Tools
Home Sweet Home 00:00 Tools
Blackside 00:00 Tools
Apart from This 00:00 Tools
Speck Mountain, 'Slow So Long' 00:00 Tools
Speck Mountain - Summer Above 00:00 Tools
Coldpoint/Badwater 00:00 Tools
Angela (Ice Cream Remix) 00:00 Tools
BackSlider / Backsliding 00:00 Tools
Shame On The Soul (Bob Moses Edit) 00:00 Tools
Speck Mountain - Some Sweet Re 00:00 Tools
Speck Mountain - Blood Is Clean 00:00 Tools
01 Run Honey Run 00:00 Tools
853Some Sweet Relief 00:00 Tools
Chlorine Fields 2 00:00 Tools
Hey Moon. 00:00 Tools
Girl Out West (Daytrotter Session) 00:00 Tools
Blood is Clean (Daytrotter Session) 00:00 Tools
Stockholm (Daytrotter Session) 00:00 Tools
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While many efforts have been made to describe the music of Speck Mountain, one must jump in headfirst on their own to fully absorb the band’s textured and melodic sound. Deep within their sonic landscape is something innately recognizable––maybe it calls to mind a dozy record player hazing over ’60s soul, a dream, a scrap of a memory cloaked in that fuzzy atmosphere. By their own definition, “ambient soul” seems the most apt. It is a sound that surrounds us, warm and round––a sound that seems like it was always there. The same could be said of how the band began. Self-described “musical soul mates,” Marie-Claire Balabanian and Karl Briedrick appear to have lived out parallel lives in the suburban sprawls of Los Angeles and Detroit respectively before finding each other in New York City in the early-2000s. Now based in Chicago, the duo share song writing duties in the formative stages––Balabanian doles out her soulful vocals and Briedrick crafts rich sonic textures in bass and guitar in the final cuts. For their third album together Badwater, the creative partners have added drummer Chris Dye, previously of Chin Up Chin Up, and Linda Malonis, a former pentacostal church pianist turned drone-rock organist. Bonded by an almost mystical connection and a musical intuition Balabanian and Briedrick have cultivated together, Speck Mountain will release Badwater on Carrot Top Records in January 2013 with tour dates to be announced. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.