Common Prayer readies This Is A Mountain

Common Prayer is a Brooklyn, NY based group fronted by songwriter/principal heretic Jason Sebastian Russo seeing the release of their debut album, There Is A Mountain June 1st (digital)/July 19th (UK physical). The band has signed to Big Potato Records in the UK, a label founded in part by Neil Halstead, with plans for a late 2010 European jaunt.

In the album’s eleven elaborately cinematic outsider-pop tracks, violin innuendos and organ riffs tangle with scrap metal samples and found sounds. While thoughtful and often somber in theme, Russo’s songs are playfully bizarre, informed by extensive field research in the life of the heartbroken, reckless, romantic and mentally ill from a reflective and victorious post-everything perspective.

Download “Us vs. Them” off There Is A Mountain by clicking HERE.