Music Review: Mt. Desolation - State of Our Affairs

I'll be damned if I don't write about this band. I'll be freaking damned.

Okay, if there is one thing British bands always fail to do, it will be producing crappy music. They are such genius it is almost impossible to hate their music even for Pete Doherty's Babyshambles. Bands are surfacing with multitude of genres and styles and smart-ass music which will leave you with a question, what in world do their parents feed them? Great vocal is a plus.

Here is my latest obsession, Mt. Desolation. If you look at each one of its bandmembers, you'll recognize a face or two of familiarity. This extensive bands actually made of members of Keane, Noah & The Whale, The Killers, The Long Winters, The Staves, Mumford & Sons. The core of the band, though, is composed of frontmen Tim Rice-Oxley and Jesse Quin, both members of Keane.

It has A A Bondy's "A Slow Parade" (I have his song for a while in this blog's playlist back in March last year) hints to it, just how Bob Dylan's "Desolation Row" influence Bondy's.

Now let just listen to this song.

Morning wears a veil of rain above the city I live in

The traffic‘s edging forward again

But no-one knows where they’re going

Could it be a sign of our affairs

I'm seeing

Cause we’ll still be here

When weather turns, and blue skies reappear

And you’re crest fallen

Well you climb Mt. Desolation yet again

And you find we’re all just ordinary men.

Find some comfort in a bar and hear the news from my brother

He tore his happiness apart and says his heart won’t recover

Is this just a sign of our affairs

I’m seeing?

Cause we’ll still be here

When weather turns, and blue skies reappear

When you’re crestfallen

You climb Mt. Desolation yet again

And you find we’re all just ordinary men