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Dec 19, 2011This album perhaps best shows the duo able to capture the sense of drone as exaltation, something derived from the choice of instruments used, whether old keyboards, guitars, effects pedals, or further combinations and extrapolations as desired.
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May 27, 2011Anderegg and Holtkamp have a gift for crafting beauty at the heart of the flutter, and Air Museum draws a listener in like a moth to a remarkably realistic likeness of a flame.
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May 24, 2011Air Museum lays to rest the shortlist of uncertainties I've pinned on Mountains in the past--mostly by not changing much.
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May 18, 2011On Air Museum, they've turned more toward rhythm and pulse. So the melodies now are more like elegant patterns tattooing out micro-rhythms, and the ever-present warm timbral glow the two do so well has become a kind of undertow, a more urgent wave motion.
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May 18, 2011Mountains are great at maintaining tension--their tracks never feel aimless or inert, even at their most toweringly monumental, like on Air Museum's "Newsprint". So if you liked Choral, here it is with more of everything, for better and for worse.
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May 18, 2011If Mountains deservedly rose to prominence with the critical acclaim of 2009′s Choral, then Air Museum should cement that praise. This album is a serious triumph.