Justin Green is best known as the founder of the Decatur boutique label Bear Kids Recordings, but for the past several years he has been writing and releasing music under the moniker Mountain Party. His latest offering, which we’re excited to premiere today, is a meditative, slow-burning cut called “Your Kind” that features Gus Fernandez of Pony League on drums and Robert Gowan of Wasted Wine on violin.
Musically, Green is a bit of a chameleon, as equally adept at crafting an intimate acoustic ballad as he is writing lush, dynamic indie rock. “Your Kind” finds him splitting the difference; it’s a luxuriant, well-layered track bound in a kind of exotic, Middle Eastern sway, but despite it’s expansive, wide-screen aesthetic, the track still feels confessional, at times almost sullen.
“Don’t you tell me now,” Green sings midway through, his voice quietly brooding as he delivers his terse incrimination: “How you’re better off / You had to know, all you want is money.”
According to Green, it’s the conflict between the creative and spiritual over the material that forms the song’s central theme. In a statement provided to Immersive, he writes:
“Lyrically, ‘Your Kind’ is an indictment of the pursuit of money over art, both with a man-vs-self conflicted perspective as well as outwardly projected to former friends and collaborators. The song (hopefully) illustrates the internal struggle of the artist with a day job who desires, above all, to be able to do art for a living, and coping with the perversion of and/or buying into all the ways in which our society incentivizes and productizes that pursuit. The song also heaps a healthy bit of derision, probably unfairly, onto others that sacrifice so much in the pursuit of money.”
Stream/download “Your Kind” below. The track is also available for free download via Bandcamp.
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