Loma Prieta - 2009 Dark Mountain

Band : Loma Prieta

Album : Dark Mountain

Release Year : 2009

Genre : Screamo / Emo Violence

Tracklist:

01. Exit Here
02. Vermillion River
03. King Xing
04. Carelessnessness
05. Ghost Shadow
06. Punxx'nup
07. Arc
08. Surrounding

Dark Mountain isn’t an album you can just forge an opinion on in one listen. On first listen for me, I was completely bored with the album, probably because I had such high expectations for it after their surprisingly amazing Last City. I say surprisingly amazing because before Last City, I was not really impressed with this band much at all. Most of their EPs before this, such as Our LP is your EP, was in a nutshell just a poor attempt at Ampere. The songs were jumpy and discordant, and the vocals were out of this world bad. Then out of nowhere, they release Last City, completely blowing everyone’s thought of whom they were and what they could do. Dark Mountain further expands on the progression that they started with Last City.

Clocking in at 15 minutes long, it’s almost sad that the album is this short. Released only 10 months after Last City, it’s impressive to see such an improvement in the band in that short of time. At first I thought this album was just a watered-down Last City, but after giving it many more listens, the album really shines through and surpasses Last City as Loma Prieta’s best album to date. They have picked up their game on every aspect of the album and even if it’s 7 minutes shorter then Last City, it’s still a nice progression to see in such a short time. I really hope that Loma Prieta takes a little bit more time on their next full length though, for if the jump they made from Last City to Dark Mountain was this noticeable, then their next album could possibly be something out of this world. 

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