Posts Tagged ‘How to Dance’

MOUNT MORIAH – ” Baby Blue “

Posted: February 14, 2016 in MUSIC
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The video for new How To Dance single “Baby Blue” ruptures the fourth wall in the same way Mount Moriah’s music ruptures the traditional themes of Southern roots rock. The intimacy of each moment captured on camera mimics the slow and heartfelt vocals and dusty instrumentation, the clip’s surreal nature accenting the slow-burning single’s dreamy qualities all the while. Seeking to highlight the fact that each seemingly candid moment captured is indeed a construct, director Jordan Michael Blake sought to use the film’s voyeuristic qualities in order to “prompt some thought about the way to frame our own personal memories/perceptions of others.” Watch the music video for “Baby Blue” below.

From the album How to Dance, out February 26th on Merge Records.

MOUNT MORIAH – ” Cardinal Cross “

Posted: December 10, 2015 in MUSIC
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Beginning with their 2010 EP, “The Letting Go”, North Carolina’s Mount Moriah has been a steady, subversive force in the state. The band’s members have backgrounds in punk and heavy metal, but deliver sharp, twang-tinged rock music together as a unit. Heather McEntire, who fronts the outfit and writes the band’s lyrics, pens moving songs that ache and soothe as she sings about heartache and redemption. A crucial part of Mount Moriah’s songs has been the idea of a conflicting Southern identity: loving the place you call home, but sometimes clashing with dominant cultural politics or mindsets. The band transforms those sometimes ugly skirmishes into utterly stunning songs.

The band delivered two excellent records with 2011’s Mount Moriah and 2013’s Miracle Temple and, in February, their third LP will arrive via Merge Records. “Cardinal Cross,” the first single from the forthcoming new release titled “How to Dance”, is a strong, scorching tune that ponders supernatural and astrological elements. Jenks Miller, who crafts most of Mount Moriah’s intricate and intriguing guitar licks, explains that the song’s theme is based on an astrological phenomenon called the Grand (or Cardinal) Cross, which represents the intersection of personality traits that seem to conflict with one another.