Mike Bloom’s new single “Mountains” is a shimmering, gospel-tinged indie rock anthem that carries the weight of existential awe and emotional erosion in equal measure. With a grainy, raw, and almost prayerful voice that sounds like it’s echoing across canyons, Bloom delivers what feels less like a song and more like a sermon from the summit.
The guitars glimmer like sunlight cutting through fog, the cymbals sparkle, and the drums pound with purpose, creating a expansive and dream-drenched soundscape, as if the song itself is trying to scale a spiritual peak. “Take me alive,” he opens, and suddenly you’re dropped into a windstorm of memory, loss, and a desperate search for clarity.
There’s a haunted beauty to “Mountains,” as Bloom reflects on friendship, solitude, addiction, and the deafening silence of symbols we don’t stop to understand. “Oh mountains talk / But you never look at mountains,” he sings, pleading with the listener to not only feel but see—a quiet indictment of our distracted, spiritually numb lives.
The track floats with a steady pulse, and even as his voice stretches and echoes into distance midway, the music holds you in place, like being inside a dream you don’t want to wake from. It’s immersive, aching, and profoundly introspective.
Paired with the B-side “Natural Disaster,” Bloom continues his hallucinogenic emotional unraveling. Here, his vocals drift with the same intoxicating haze, the lyrics teetering between love and obliteration. “Is it love that you’re after / Or a natural disaster?” he asks, a line that lands like a soft punch to the gut. Both songs hum with a cosmic sadness, yet neither wallows—instead, they glow with the kind of honesty that keeps you pressing repeat.
With Mountains, Mike Bloom has climbed into rarefied air. And he’s brought back something worth hearing again and again.
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Review by: Naomi Joan