{"id":36459,"date":"2018-06-01T10:07:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T09:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=36459"},"modified":"2018-06-01T10:10:26","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T09:10:26","slug":"alt-rock-trio-desert-mountain-tribe-return-with-a-surging-second-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/06\/alt-rock-trio-desert-mountain-tribe-return-with-a-surging-second-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Alt-Rock Trio Desert Mountain Tribe Return With Surging Second Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"36479\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/06\/alt-rock-trio-desert-mountain-tribe-return-with-a-surging-second-album\/dmt-logo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DMT-Logo.png?fit=508%2C493&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"508,493\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"DMT Logo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DMT-Logo.png?fit=508%2C493&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-36479\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DMT-Logo.png?resize=640%2C621&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"621\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The album, \u2018Om Parvat Mystery\u2019, is named after an ancient holy mountain in the Himalayas. On a recent radio appearance, the band also joked that it was because making the album had been an uphill struggle, with half being recorded in the UK and half in the Faroe Islands.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This second record shows a greater variety and depth than its predecessor, \u2018Either That or The Moon\u2019. Whilst their debut album inducted listeners into the band\u2019s signature psychedelic sound, their second sees them experiment with music that strays between the reverb-rich revelry for which they are revered to a purer rock sound reminiscent of an early Kasabian.<br \/>\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Random Ad stuff --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2076862002005673\" data-ad-slot=\"3107208401\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is definitely a positive move for their music, as the record paves an unpredictable and highly enjoyable path through their new direction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trying to define the first single from the album, \u2018Wide Eyes\u2019, I produced the phrase \u2018psychedelic surf-rock\u2019. It\u2019s a nostalgia packed warm-weather track, with a constant heat-haze of echoing guitar and rolling drums invoking feelings of summer days spent on the coast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Track five, \u2018Spyders\u2019, leaves the beach, instead opting for a more chilled road-trip reminiscent sound. An acoustic opening leads into a softer breed of rock. This remains the case until the later stages, when a drum-induced defibrillation breathes an unexpected speed to the song.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This travels into the record\u2019s next track, \u2018High Drive\u2019. A mischievous, creeping piece of music that sneaks a hand forward to the car stereo and inches the volume dial up, one notch at a time. A deliciously drawled vocal hook and ever-more adventurous accompanying guitar serve as a reminder that the band haven\u2019t lost their psych-rock roots.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Perhaps the most interesting track on the record is \u2018Himalaya\u2019, a collaboration with singer-songwriter Najma Akhtar. It is an isolated piece of music, drawing from a number of diverse and fresh influences for the band to a trekking anthem. The pace is set by a bassline that though it starts with a lazy trudge, is soon coaxed into running as the song ascends to an almost to a lofty, intoxicating peak.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Overall, the record is an all-expenses paid extreme tourism experience with mountains, beaches, road-trips and great music. It\u2019s the sort of sun-drenched summer holiday MTV videos used to taunt you with. The Californian sun that was dangled like a carrot on a stick, always out of reach behind a thin TV screen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well, Desert Mountain Tribe have made it accessible. They\u2019ve even compacted it into nine tracks, and a 12-inch diameter if vinyl\u2019s more your style.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;Om Parvat Mystery&#8217; by Desert Mountain Tribe is out today. For more information, <a href=\"http:\/\/desertmountaintribe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit their official website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The album, \u2018Om Parvat Mystery\u2019, is named after an ancient holy mountain in the Himalayas. On a recent radio appearance, the band also joked that it was because making the album had been an uphill struggle, with half being recorded in the UK and half in the Faroe Islands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[111,1813,1345,324,13778,13073,65,144,77,13780,116],"class_list":["post-36459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","tag-album","tag-album-review","tag-alt-rock","tag-band","tag-desert-mountain-tribe","tag-harry-bullmore","tag-london","tag-new-album","tag-new-release","tag-om-parvat-mystery","tag-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-9u3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":34965,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/04\/desert-mountain-tribe-wide-eyes\/","url_meta":{"origin":36459,"position":0},"title":"Desert Mountain Tribe &#8211; &#8216;Wide Eyes&#8217;","author":"Essentially Pop","date":"14\/04\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Indie-rock trio Desert Mountain Tribe release 'Wide Eyes', the debut single from their upcoming second album, 'Om Parvat Mystery'.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;New Artists&quot;","block_context":{"text":"New Artists","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/category\/music\/new-artists\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/DMT2.png?fit=851%2C360&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/DMT2.png?fit=851%2C360&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/DMT2.png?fit=851%2C360&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/DMT2.png?fit=851%2C360&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":44951,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/01\/shadow-puppet-theatre-mystery-girl-and-john-doe\/","url_meta":{"origin":36459,"position":1},"title":"Shadow Puppet Theatre &#8211; &#8216;Mystery Girl&#8217;, And &#8216;John Doe&#8217;","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"17\/01\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Shadow Puppet Theatre hail from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and the four trained musicians somehow found each other and came together to make their raw, yet refined, sounds of alternative rock and pop.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;New Releases&quot;","block_context":{"text":"New Releases","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/category\/music\/new-releases\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Shadow-Puppet-Theatre-press.jpg?fit=1100%2C733&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Shadow-Puppet-Theatre-press.jpg?fit=1100%2C733&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Shadow-Puppet-Theatre-press.jpg?fit=1100%2C733&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Shadow-Puppet-Theatre-press.jpg?fit=1100%2C733&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Shadow-Puppet-Theatre-press.jpg?fit=1100%2C733&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":27642,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2017\/05\/theshift-consecrate-and-dreams\/","url_meta":{"origin":36459,"position":2},"title":"theSHIFT &#8211; &#8216;Consecrate&#8217; and &#8216;Dreams&#8217;","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"22\/05\/2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Trio, theSHIFT all attended Berklee College of Music, in Boston, but now they call New York City their home. 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