Blog: PopMatters

The folk renderings of Mountain Meadows embody the vast uncertainty of the American west in a way that honors the survivors, their legacy, and the memory of those that became the very spirit of adventure. Elliott Brood, a three-piece outfit from Toronto, have been practicing their unique brand of creepy frontier ambience, which some have dubbed death-country, since 2004, giving us the morosely sepulchral Ambassador and now the paradoxical morbidity of Mountains Meadows. While the title conveys a kind of Ansel Adams serenity, their latest release actually revolves around the 1857 Mountain Meadows massacre in Utah, though [...]