Mind Mountain were a Liverpool three-piece who formed in 2011 and quickly established themselves on the local, and increasingly national, scene by gaining a reputation for hammering out improvised and musically accomplished live sets which marry the best of the prog and psych traditions. Yet, along with many of their contemporaries in this rapidly emerging scene, Mind Mountain do not sound like throwbacks or a prog/psych tribute band, and while they take in the likes of Pink Floyd and Black Sabbath, they have very much developed their own sound which I find both gripping and mesmerising. In 2015 the band recorded a eponymously named debut consisting of three tracks, all of which are long and heavy chunks of guitar-led psych rock whose riffage at times would not sound out of place at Donnington. The same year they shared a split single with another favourite band of mine, Carlton Melton, and so their 'Astraeus' takes their recorded output to 36 minutes, or just enough for a shortish album length release. The band have long gone now, but at least we have this record of some great heavy psyche-rock that they recorded while they were around.
Track listing
01 Void
02 Singularity
03 Dune
04 Astraeus
