The Color of Cyan seeps back in with monumental force on the face-melting "Hail the Mountains," the first single from their forthcoming third LP, "As Human." This music demands to be not just heard but felt from the very first swell.
The Puerto Rico-based post-rock band constructs a churning, wordless epic that's both majestic and meditative. Propelled by tremolo-picked guitars that polish like a frigid alpine wind and music that feels as expansive and epic as a mountain range, the song slows down time. It achieves that rare sensation of standing still while everything else is in motion. It's meditative and monumental at once. This is a band that knows how to construct. For nearly seven minutes, "Hail the Mountains" moves like tectonic plates, slow, large, inexorable. The instrumentation ebbs and flows in emotional waves that capture the exquisite tension between human fragility and the permanence of nature. There's no urgency to the peak, the journey is the purpose, and each sound layer feels like a statement carved from silence, like a rock from the earth.
And when you think the storm has passed, The Color of Cyan pulls something over on you. The song haunts and fades to a quiet acoustic outro, like a breathy echo of footfalls on snow or beams of sun on the first day of spring after a long winter. It's an ending that feels as much like a beginning, a taking stock that's something more, a breath that's grateful, steady, and deeply human.
"Hail the Mountains" doesn't jump on trends. It doesn't saunter by, doesn't shimmy, doesn't beg for attention via flash or frenzy. Instead, it hoists its flag into a country all its own stoic, wide-open, and eternal.
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