Speck Mountain - Slow So Long

Directed by: Kayla Anderson
While many efforts have been made to describe the music of Speck Mountain, one must jump in headfirst on their own to fully absorb the band's textured and melodic sound. Deep within their sonic landscape is something innately recognizable -- maybe it calls to mind a dozy record player hazing over '60s soul, a dream, a scrap of memory cloaked in that fuzzy atmosphere. By their own definition, "ambient soul" seems the most apt. It is a sound that surrounds us, warm and round -- a sound that seems like it was always there.
The same could be said of how the band began. Self-described "musical soul mates," Marie-Claire Balabanian and Karl Briedrick appear to have lived out parallel lives in the suburban sprawls of Los Angeles and Detroit respectively before finding each other in New York City in the early-2000s. Now based in Chicago, the duo share song writing duties in the formative stages -- Balabanian doles out her soulful vocals and Briedrick crafts rich sonic textures in bass and guitar in the final cuts.
For their third album together, Badwater, the creative partners have added drummer Chris Dye, previously of Chin Up Chin Up, and Linda Malonis, a former pentacostal church pianist turned drone-rock organist.
Bonded by an almost mystical connection and a musical intuition, Balabanian and Briedrick have cultivated together, Speck Mountain will release Badwater on Carrot Top Records in January 2013 with tour dates to be announced.

[@connorfoster7978]

If you guys see this, please know your music brought me so much peace and comfort while I was in addiction, and I wanted to thank you all for making such amazing music. 3 years clean from heroin in July ❤

[@xvariabledesign]

I JUST discovered this band a few months ago. What a great sound. Her vocals on "backslider" got me hooked.

[@jft8130]

Listened to this while driving through West Virginia in the middle of the night. Over and over again. So hauntingly beautiful.

[@sunshine6173]

Yes it is

[@rhiannonbrown5325]

Love this group. I can listen to them for hours. This is my favorite.

[@rhiannonbrown5325]

Love this group and love this song! Makes me zone out and relax.

[@leebridenstine2806]

Such a beautiful song

[@Blackj33p1]

flows right in with Mazzy Star

[@robertcubinelli4961]

Cov Op Totally agree.

[@xusemoi]

i am on you guys like white bread... cheers.

[@billywatson]

Good chilled sounds.

[@anSealgair]

I love this song so much and have since I discovered the band on Pandora around 2013. The vibe is extremely peaceful and relaxing. But the video doesn't do much for me. Is it meant to be people doing mundane things the whole time and being dissatisfied with that? - "slow so long"

[@Anteglio]

Great work guys! :D

[@robertcubinelli4961]

Spectrally psychedelic .

[@xusemoi]

oh. and nicely shot.

[@roxroxana8685]

like it