FEVRMOON’s “Mountain of Dreams” Is Experimental Pop Operating With the Logic of the Hypnogogic State

FEVRMOON2_sm_crop — FEVRMOON, image courtesy the artists

The distorted synth and voice like a television tuned to a dead channel (and other Neuromancer references) at the beginning of “Mountain of Dreams” by FEVRMOON gives way to the hypnotic flow of a long piano figure playing out to infinity and disembodied vocals floating above, strings giving a sense of yesteryear when they come in, and an echoing sonar blip that marks the time out of time evoked by this song. Splashes of water and wind chimes later in the song as the voice let’s out a cry in processed stutter gives a sense of the otherworldliness of inner space before the song cuts off, as so many dreams do, before they make logical sense to our conscious minds while seeming so significant and perfectly sensible while we’re having them. There’s no convenient genre tag for this kind of song beyond something like experimental electronic pop but that wouldn’t do justice to how beautiful and strange it really is. Listen below and follow FEVRMOON’s journey at the links provided.