Slumber Party Records

Fancy a bit of the fantastic in your pop rock? Then look no further than Talking Mountain’s self-titled EP, an infectious eight track helping from the Omaha duo that is teeming with surreal sounds and images.

Join the band as they trek through a landscape of peculiar entities – dispirited specters, health savvy snowmen, obliging brontosaurus, a dancer named Apple Jacks.

While indeed quirky, the albums overall tone manages to vary heavily from track to track, delivering it from a simple “cute” branding. “Here Comes The Wizard” is a rather low-key affair, catering to the hashish lover inside all of us. The cautionary “This Is Bad 4 U” serves as a crash course on the dangers of meth abuse. And amputees can take solace in “The Phantom Arm”, an offbeat little ditty that gives a voice to an often overlooked plight.

The one constant in Talking Mountain’s work is its use of hauntingly catchy and sometimes laughable (see: Sad Ghost) vocal melodies, which permeate the album and will, by the end, have the most tone-deaf listener humming along.

In short, these songs are good. Listen.

-Tim Greenup

1. Here Comes the Wizard
2. The Phantom Arm
3. Applepants / Big City Kids
4. The Abominable Abdominable Snowman
5. The Brontosaurbus
6. Baseball Stars
7. This is Bad 4 U
8. Sad Ghost (Demo)

Press:

Omaha City Weekly
The Needle Drop
The Bat and the Bird