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Track List
01) Hold Your Breath
02) Flood, Part 1
03) Even While You're Sleeping
04) Crooked Legs
05) Glory
06) Oh Napoleon
07) Low Gravity
08) Sister Margaret
09) Antenna
10) Plateau Ramble
11) Flood, Part 2
12) Lullabye (Mountain)
01) Hold Your Breath
02) Flood, Part 1
03) Even While You're Sleeping
04) Crooked Legs
05) Glory
06) Oh Napoleon
07) Low Gravity
08) Sister Margaret
09) Antenna
10) Plateau Ramble
11) Flood, Part 2
12) Lullabye (Mountain)
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First Released
2007
Indie Folk
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Glory Hope Mountain is a concept album by Canadian indie folk band The Acorn, released 25 September 2007 on Paper Bag Records. It is their second full-length.
The album was recorded and produced by Jarrett Bartlett.
Several members of Toronto-based indie pop band Ohbijou are credited with playing instruments and additional recording on the album. Singer Casey Mecija provides vocals for the final track.
The album is based on the life of Rolf Klausener’s Honduran-born mother, Gloria Esperanza Montoya, and the title is a rough translation of her name.
The album art was inspired by local Ottawa mixed-media artist Amy Alice Thompson's series "Gloria".
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What three years ago would have been referred to as 'lo-fi' now gets called folk. Whatever, Ottawa's The Acorn have delivered a meditative little gem filled with piano, acoustic guitars and rolling drums. Rather than burying their music in lush harmonies a la Fleet Foxes it concentrates on the wavering voice of leader Rolf Klausener.
Glory Hope Mountain is ostensibly about Klausener's Honduras-born mother, Gloria Esperanza Montoya. While the album's peaks and troughs are finely judged it can, in its early stages, too often rely on two chord vamping and repetition to achieve its emotional tipping points.
However there is a willingness to experiment charmingly within the context of beardy campus tropes. Listen to the almost Native American drumming circle vibe of Flood, Pt1, or Low Gravity (where it lurches nicely into dissonance and electric mayhem) or the Sufjan Stevens' vulnerability of Glory. Oddly at times it can put one in mind of the less out-there moments of Animal Collective.
It's never less than pleasing, though, like much music produced by such bands recently, it's hard to be entirely passionate about it, until that is, you reach the warbling Plateau Ramble and the rolling Flood, Pt2. You suddenly realise that you're beginning to love this cute little number more than you ever expected to, and that in itself brings you back for more. In the end there's great promise here.
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Glory Hope Mountain is a concept album by Canadian indie folk band The Acorn, released 25 September 2007 on Paper Bag Records. It is their second full-length.
The album was recorded and produced by Jarrett Bartlett.
Several members of Toronto-based indie pop band Ohbijou are credited with playing instruments and additional recording on the album. Singer Casey Mecija provides vocals for the final track.
The album is based on the life of Rolf Klausener’s Honduran-born mother, Gloria Esperanza Montoya, and the title is a rough translation of her name.
The album art was inspired by local Ottawa mixed-media artist Amy Alice Thompson's series "Gloria".
User Album Review
What three years ago would have been referred to as 'lo-fi' now gets called folk. Whatever, Ottawa's The Acorn have delivered a meditative little gem filled with piano, acoustic guitars and rolling drums. Rather than burying their music in lush harmonies a la Fleet Foxes it concentrates on the wavering voice of leader Rolf Klausener.
Glory Hope Mountain is ostensibly about Klausener's Honduras-born mother, Gloria Esperanza Montoya. While the album's peaks and troughs are finely judged it can, in its early stages, too often rely on two chord vamping and repetition to achieve its emotional tipping points.
However there is a willingness to experiment charmingly within the context of beardy campus tropes. Listen to the almost Native American drumming circle vibe of Flood, Pt1, or Low Gravity (where it lurches nicely into dissonance and electric mayhem) or the Sufjan Stevens' vulnerability of Glory. Oddly at times it can put one in mind of the less out-there moments of Animal Collective.
It's never less than pleasing, though, like much music produced by such bands recently, it's hard to be entirely passionate about it, until that is, you reach the warbling Plateau Ramble and the rolling Flood, Pt2. You suddenly realise that you're beginning to love this cute little number more than you ever expected to, and that in itself brings you back for more. In the end there's great promise here.
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