New Skin

Mount Analog's second release featuring:
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Tucker Martine, Bill Frisell, Eyvind Kang, Doug Weiselman, Dave Carter, Keith Lowe, Timothy Young, Jon Hyde, Steve Moore,
Bruce Wirth, Fred Chalenor

Film Guerrero [2004]

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"Martine’s production at times suggests hot Southern afternoons spent drifting down rivers on lazy currents, but don’t be misled to believe that there’s anything at all indolent about this music. Rather, its tonal colors have been carefully adjusted: earth tones tweaked toward the golden, upper registers enriched with vibrant azures. Martine gently blankets found sounds—the types of gently off-kilter sounds encountered when a radio drifts off its station—onto layers of acoustic instrumentation. Such elements are like filigreed dust patterns or the sunlit shadow of a lace curtain cast upon an interior. There’s something time out of mind about Mount Analog, as though its music was recorded two or three generations ago, even if the collaging and occasional burst of heavy percussion are notably contemporary. Much of this album provides the sort of sensory delight experienced on reading Bruno Schulz’s descriptions of home from The Street of Crocodiles (e.g., "blazing with sunshine and scented with the sweet melting pulp of golden pears").
 New Skin isn’t the work of somebody secreted away in one-on-one communion with his or her computer. Instead, it’s a lovingly crafted and beautiful work that reflects an intimately observed engagement with the lived world." - Grooves Magazine

"Tucker Martine is an amazing producer/engineer. He is similar to the surrealist painters, completely able to capture the clarity and realism of the world around him, but choosing to look deeper and slightly askew at it. And you would imagine that when this man, this force of sound, puts out a record, it is going to be transcendental, genre-bending stuff… and you would be right on the money.
 New Skin is one of those records that will never ever get old. I can put it on three times a day and hear three different things. It is as if the CD itself is changing its molecular structure continuously, or else I am being changed. I think it is more the latter, than the former.
Strange and wonderful artifacts of music abound on this strange and wonderful record (I can never get enough of that damn harmonium).   It is beauty caught on tape and makes me dream of the sea. I highly recommend this record, down to the beautifully simple packaging, brought to you by the record label that is ahead of its time, Film Guerrero. Go and order yourself a copy and prepare to buy another one for your friends." - Indie Workshop

"Mount Analog is a workshop for drummer/producer Tucker Martine's expressionistic, ambient collages. Martine claims film music and Morton Feldman as influences, though you might also hear Daniel Lanois and George Martine in the mix. His impressive production work emphasizes depth of field and dynamic range. Like a dream, Mount Analog's cryptic music follows its own idiosyncratic logic" - Downbeat Magazine

"Playing along like the soundtrack to a movie set in the desert, late at night, while two lovers search for something other than baron land. Mount Analog's New Skin paints the perfect pictures scenes, unfolding slowly and methodically. Though somehow still managing to create a full, semi-lush soundscape that will swell inside your mind and fully consume you, the dazzling, brilliantly laid out sounds colliding with the right amount of atmosphere, subtly the name of the game, and so much happening under that guise. Layers and layers mixed with air and time make this a gentle record, one that is easily absorbed. The perfect background music, and so much more. It actually draws your attention, even when it is only playing in the background." - In Music We Trust

"New Skin is at once accessible yet mysterious. In today’s world of shattered and mashed stereotypes, it’s pointless to wonder if Mount Analog is jazz, classical, noise, Alan Lomax’s great grandson, musique concrete, whatever. Y’know? The result is strikingly original and haunting collage that treats all sounds as equals and is worthy of your closest attention" - Scratch Records

"hard to categorize but easy to enjoy. it swells into a Spiritualized-meets-Jimmy Webb splendor cry yourself silly. DAVE SEGAL" - The Portland Mercury