If Kevin Spacey and the drug dealing kid from next door were looking for something else to smoke to other than Pink Floyd in American Beauty, A Mountain of One would have been a pretty good choice. But much like Pink Floyd, there’s a line where the music goes from a stoner’s delight, to just way too much like your Dad’s daggy CD collection. 

Put out through the same record company as UNKLE, David Byrne and Brian Eno, you can hear similarities in the psychedelic riffs and floaty synths.  But as an album that has tried to build a cross-genre style of its own in the same way that Portishead and Tricky were able to create their own niche, it’s just not as well executed. Whereas the former bands created music that was unparalleled to anything else out at the time and in turn created entire genres from artists inspired by their work, A Mountain of One do not sit in that league. Yes, it’s interesting and clever and will inspire of kids to get high and piss about on the guitar for hours.  But I still can’t help but think my Dad would enjoy this more than I did. 
- Kylie

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