Waves

VINYL FORMAT. There are moments when the members of Westchester, New York's Moving Mountains wonder if they should've been born a decade earlier. Their Triple Crown Records debut, Waves, harkens back to the early 2000s and finds inspiration from bands like Thursday, Sunny Day Real Estate, Engine Down, Cave In, Thrice, and even From Autumn to Ashes. Moving Mountains have sought to create something special, and Waves does an incredible job of proving that. The songs are teeming with resplendent, ethereal, guitar-driven atmospherics that slowly fade into your consciousness.

Co-founded by Greg Dunn, Moving Mountains formed in 2005 with drummer Nick Pizzolato. Originally the band was going to be a studio project. Dunn and Pizzolato wrote and recorded a self-titled demo EP that was leaked to the public in early 2006 and followed it up in 2007 with the independently-released Pneuma which Deep Elm Records re-issued a year later. The group would follow up Pneuma with a self-released EP entitled Foreword in late 2008. With a growing fan base the band hit the road and toured with a wide variety of artists including Thursday, Say Anything, Fall Of Troy, Eisley and many others.

Moving Mountains began working on Waves in late 2009 and produced a powerful collection of music which -- lyrically -- deals with loss and learning to cope with it. In fact, all of Moving Mountains' songs have tackled the topic and for Dunn, the process has been nothing if not cathartic: Just before starting Moving Mountains, Dunn suffered the loss of a close friend and his teenaged mind was grappling with these new emotions he'd never before experienced. The music was a way for him to deal with the pain.