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Mountain Passes - the soundtrack to a quarter-life crisis.

The sound of four Cheltenham based friends, who met each other at church; Alex Workman (bass), Gareth Harper (guitar & vocals), Kieran Brannigan (guitar) and Simon Jones (drums & percussion).

Together, they make post-rock inflected indie, with healthy doses of metal and other stuff thrown in for good measure.

Their first demos were recorded and mixed by Shawn Wheatley at Studio 340 in Cheltenham, and were released in May 2017. They're free to download now on Soundcloud:

* ’Distractions At Junction 12’ (what happens when your short attention span distracts you from a worthy creative endeavour, but leads you accidentally to a much more fun creative endeavour).
* ’Forget The Clichés, It’s The Son Of Man!’ (an honest, cynical, 28-year-old Harper’s reflection on a life transforming encounter with Jesus Christ - 11 years earlier).

Mountain Passes hope that they create songs which speak of the mess and beauty of life.
And they’d love for you to have a listen and make up your own mind, about whether or not that’s true.

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