A Mountain Of One - Institute Of Joy

1. Intro
2. Sky Is Folding
3. Bones
4. Lie Awake
5. Green
6. Highs Of The Sun
7. Hail Pleasure
8. River Music
9. Purple
10. In Our Lifetime
11. Ahead Of The Curve
12. Who By Fire
13. White Spider
14. Knife Of The Sultan

A Mountain Of One have produced one of the albums of the year. Institute Of Joy is one of the most ambitious, direct and phenomenal records for a long time.

Following the release and a string of highly sought after 12s and the Collected Works CD that brought together the bands first three EPs, the band have been in studio for the past year putting together this, Institute Of Joy.

This album feels like it could wrap itself round the world. Its a massive achievement, a record that looks through the past to discover the future, a musical trip that for people to lose themselves in, ITs music for the mind and soul, the work of a band at the peak of their powers and phenomenally creative.

Its the work of two people - Mo Morris and Zeben Jameson - that know music passionately and instinctively. Its a modern day classic. Much more than the sum of its vast influences, A Mountain Of One have made a psychedelic rock record record for 2009.

O! The Joy - Zen Mode

1. Conceivable Test Tube Baby
2. There Is No Such Thing As "Organized Crime"
3. This Fault Is Not Mine
4. Under The Radar
5. 22435
6. The Man And The Secrets
7. We Write The Next Chapter
8. I Just Didn' t Tell You
9. Guiding Role
10. Zen Mode

"If Built to Spill and The Mars Volta spawned a child, it might sound something along the lines of Sacramento's O! The Joy, but never long enough to get too caught up in the aforementioned names. Then again, there is ample evidence O! The Joy have explored the kosmische scene as well on their new record Zen Mob, here & there philosophically echoing Faust's manner of carrying rare tangents to fruition. Having said that, maybe I'm just high, but my favorite tune on the record, "Under The Radar," really reminds me of Joe Jackson, especially on the expansive slow punch of the chorus. Zen Mode shows a seamless weaving of genres, transferring from melodically intense passages to drugged out guitar mania splattering color."

The Yellow Moon Band - Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World

01 Polaris
02 Chimney
03 Entangled
04 Maybach
05 Focussed
06 Domini
07 Window
08 Lunadelica