Mountain Movers Walking After Dark

The current lineup of New Haven's long running Mountain Movers (guitarist/vocalist DanGreene, bassist Rick Omonte, guitarist Kr yssi Battalene, & drummer Ross Menze) have beenplaying together for over a decade now, making their recorded debut on a slew of singlesreleased from 2011-2013, but it wasn't until 2015's "Death Magic" (released on New Havenlabel Safety Meeting) that the potential of that iteration of the group became clear;Mountain Movers are a force of nature. The camaraderie & sensitivity to each others playinghas only grown over time, cr ystallizing on the group's trio of albums for Trouble In Mind; 2017'seponymous "Mountain Movers" served as a reintroduction of the group to a larger audience,while 2018's "Pink Skies" raged like a group confident in its strengths, and 2020's prescient"World What World" - written & recorded before the world shut down - slightly shifted focusaway from the jams & back toward the weight of guitarist/songwriter Dan Greene's poetic talesof magical realism. The band's ninth album "Walking After Dark" finds a happy medium betweenboth aspects of the band's strengths; Greene's lyrical compositions and the group's long-formimprovised jams.To those that are tuned in, that feeling of communion is evident in the Movers' playing. Themembers swap & cycle effortlessly through instruments without missing a beat, utilizing thedowntime of lockdown to write & record every jam in their practice space. Those piles oftapes would eventually get edited & sequenced into "Walking After Dark", a tour-de-forcedouble-album that balances fried, stony brilliance with outré excursions of experimentalserenity.Consider the opening track "Bodega On My Mind" that ambles in like a road-worn traveller,its lysergic folk strums peppered with acidic lead lines from Battalene's Telecaster, eventuallygiving way to "The Sun Shines On The Moon, where the group's sizzling guitars are buoyed byOmonte's pillowy bass & Menze's percussion. From there on out, tracks like...