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'We Built Our Castles On Moving Sand' released via Monolithic Records

We Built Our Castles On Moving Sand

Remix of Salvation from Mountains Under Oceans' debut EP. Remixed by Robbie Tranter of Mountains Under Oceans. Original track available from: https://mountainsunderoceans.bandcamp.com/album/mountains-under-oceans-e-p-2

Original artwork by Sebastien Marciak, edited for this release by Katy Gilchrist.

Mountains Under Oceans - Salvation Remix

Mountains Under Oceans - Return (Ross Cairns Remix)
Original track (and EP) available for free from; https://mountainsunderoceans.bandcamp.com/album/mountains-under-oceans-e-p-2

Mountains Under Oceans - Return (Ross Cairns Remix)

'I - Renunciation' is the first track from the Mountains Under Oceans release, 'Man Is Not.' This is the first of a four part journey that the EP conceptually and thematically delivers. 'Man Is Not' addresses a psychopathic quality that is revealed throughout the layers and textures created in this record. Not only sonically, but visually, textually and thematically this is an extremely honest, exposing approach to concept creativity.

I - Renunciation

Man Is Not.

I - Renunciation
II - Presentiment
III - Encounter
IV - Dereliction

‘Man Is Not’ is the title of our second EP. This body of music is a conceptually written piece that delves into the world of human duality and mental illness. To keep this short, we have worked tirelessly for over a year to write the best music we could. It’s very close to our hearts and painfully exposing to give away to you all, but we want you to hear what we’ve created.

The incredible artwork was made by Coll Hamilton; a stunning creative you should all get to know. Tracking was done by Goonzi (Bleed From Within), who pushed us all to get the best from our playing. Mixing and mastering was carried out by Nick Scholey and Rob Mackie (Fonik). It's hard to find people that care as much as they do about music, they are brilliant. Lastly, Arran Christie (Akord) let us borrow his beautiful guitar and helped us massively in the mixing process (he even played guitar on one track). He's a dear friend of ours and we always appreciate his input.

We hope you can see/hear the layers that we’ve made throughout this record. From the artwork, themes and general conceptual creation, there is a great deal of craft that has gone into our second EP. 

Untorn is our coil.

Man Is Not - Full EP

'II - Presentiment' is the second track from the Mountains Under Oceans release, 'Man Is Not.' This is the second of a four part journey that the EP conceptually and thematically delivers. 'Man Is Not' addresses a psychopathic quality that is revealed throughout the layers and textures created in this record. Not only sonically, but visually, textually and thematically this is an extremely honest, exposing approach to concept creativity.

II - Presentiment

'III - Encounter' is the third track from the Mountains Under Oceans release, 'Man Is Not.' This is the third of a four part journey that the EP conceptually and thematically delivers. 'Man Is Not' addresses a psychopathic quality that is revealed throughout the layers and textures created in this record. Not only sonically, but visually, textually and thematically this is an extremely honest, exposing approach to concept creativity.

III - Encounter

'IV - Dereliction' is the penultimate track from the Mountains Under Oceans release, 'Man Is Not.' This is the final piece of a four part journey that the EP conceptually and thematically delivers. 'Man Is Not' addresses a psychopathic quality that is revealed throughout the layers and textures created in this record. Not only sonically, but visually, textually and thematically this is an extremely honest, exposing approach to concept creativity.

IV - Dereliction

Mountains Under Oceans are a 4-piece band based in Glasgow, Scotland, who are unlike anything you've heard before. Combining ambience and heaviness to create a new blend of experimental and progressive songs, that are filled with multi-textured layers of electronic, instrumental passages and downtuned, technical riffs that will shake the very ground beneath you.

Formed in late 2012 originally as the brainchild of drummer Mark Norris, he asked Iain Macleod, whom he met at university, to join on bass guitar duties. Iain gladly accepted, and later brought with him his good friends Dan Stevenson and Robbie Tranter to contribute their own individually unique styles of guitar playing to the mix. The band wrote and rehearsed for months before finally heading into the studio in the summer of 2013 to record their debut, self-titled EP, which was eventually released on January 31st of this year.

Since the first show towards the end of last year, the band have toured with and played alongside several high profile and internationally renowned acts, including Intronaut, Monuments, Dead Letter Circus, Scale the Summit, Akord and more, with lots more exciting news to be announced within the coming months...

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