Silver Mount Zion Horses In The Sky Rar 2017
Silver Mount Zion Horses In The Sky Rar File
These are dispiriting times for political progressives in North America, but on much of Horses in the Sky, Efrim Menuck and his ragtag troupe of patriots sound uncommonly pissy and defeated. The fourth album created under the various Mt. Zion banners, Horses finds the group expanding upon their established crescendo-laden orchestral formulae in a heady, almost reckless fashion, as though they're determined to rally themselves from sociopolitical despondency through sheer force of musical will.As with Mt. Zion's 2003 release Thee Rusted Satellites Gather + Sing, this album is weighted heavily with Menuck's quavering, strident vocals; a fact some listeners might reasonably regard as an obstacle. Thankfully, however, his bandmates frequently come to his aid both instrumentally and vocally, with some of these tracks eventually morphing into genuine old-fashioned polyphonic Sunday-school rounds.
(In fact, one could probably make the argument that Efrim is perhaps this outfit's least naturally gifted vocalist.)Though the group's song lengths remain epic, most of the tracks here are forged as multi-beaded chains, with each divided episodically into shorter, distinctive fragments. This approach pays immediate dividends on 'God Bless Our Dead Marines', which opens the album with Efrim forlornly singing, 'We put angels in the electric chair' over a slow, folkish pulse.