{"id":95962,"date":"2024-04-10T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T09:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=95962"},"modified":"2024-04-07T19:50:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T18:50:11","slug":"song-of-the-day-mt-onsra-emergent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/song-of-the-day-mt-onsra-emergent\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day: Mt. Onsra – ‘Emergent’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The friendship between multi-instrumentalists Simon Allen and Russell Cleave stretches back to 1995. They formed a band, headed to London, and then went their separate ways while sporadically keeping in touch. Fast-forward to 2020, and with the world on lockdown, the pair decided to write a song remotely. Two years later, that one song turned into a debut full-length, ‘Written in Silence\u2019 <\/em>and a project called Mt. Onsra<\/strong>.\u00a0Its creation was done remotely, exchanging files back and forth, and only once it was finished did they set up a video call.<\/p>\n

In June, Mt. Onsra<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>will be releasing their second album, ‘Sacred Time’<\/em>. It promises to see Allen and Cleave expand on the genreless foundations previously set. It also sees them working together in person. Album opener, ‘Emergent’<\/em> sets the tone with its intimate and raw slow-burning build. Chugging guitars take over, hinting at an over-arching dark side to Mt. Onsra,<\/strong> leaning into post-metal and post-rock tendencies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was the only song where we broke the format of me sending Simon an instrumental to work on vocals\/melodies\/lyrics and any added atmospherics. This time I was sent a basic outline with vocals to expand on and arrange into a song, experimenting with and building the dynamics as I went,\u201d<\/em> explains Cleave on the creation of\u00a0‘Emergent’<\/em>.<\/p>\n