The sweet whispering notes of "How Lonely Sits the City" have warmed and shriveled the heart of those who have listened to that album. A music that is intimate, cold, sentimental, and difficult to describe in words. The days spent waiting for the second album from the band The Ascent of Everest (hailing from Tennessee) were filled with expectations. Days once again filled with the surreal atmospheres of their debut album.

Once it arrived, "From This Vantage" left me stunned. Right away, you perceive the distance from "How Lonely Sits the City", but at the same time, you feel a new astonishing sensation: a placid calm takes over the listener during the CD's 8 tracks. The strings accompanying the main instruments outline melodies of ancestral beauty, but they do so angrily. They're not there to represent the "dannunziana" decadence of things, but they vomit their sounds with force, almost as if to "challenge" the guitars of David Lamp and Rob McKinney.

Their music is a journey through the most varied human sensations, in search of truths. Every little sound, every minimal atmospheric variation evokes a landscape, a natural scenario in which the now lonely man wants to find himself. The band manages to create something absolutely unique and original, delicate. An inner world in which to fold back and understand the why of things. "Return to Us", "Dark, Dark My Light", "Sword And Shield" are continuous ups and downs through the band's dreamy atmospheres. "Every Fear" is pure melancholy and the concluding "From This Vantage" is a post-rock of modern "classical" extraction, in which the strings travel to delineate the contours of a liquid, watered-down, lost world...

Now let yourselves go. Abandon yourself to the flow of things. That rising sun brings hope with it. The same sun that will later set and leave us alone, in the deepest darkness...

1. "Trapped Behind Silence" (2:45)
2. "Return To Us" (6:30)
3. "Dark, Dark My Light" (6:08)
4. "Safely Caged In Bone" (6:48)
5. "Sword And Shield" (7:24)
6. "Every Fear" (5:42)
7. "In And Through" (2:06)
8. "From This Vantage" (5:07)

Tracklist and Videos

01   Alas, Alas! The Breath of Life! (12:28)

02   As the City Burned We Trembled, for We Saw the Makings of Its Undoing in Our Own Hearts (07:03)

03   Molotov (10:21)

04   A Threnody (for the Victims of November Second) (10:15)

05   If I Could Move Mountains (14:01)

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