Following our announcement that Mountains would be playing Club Uncut on November 5, we received an email the other day from a duo called Pausal who, to be honest, none of us had ever heard of.

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It turns out Pausal are a British group whoโ€™ve previously toured Europe in the company of Koen from Mountains, and who have an album due next year thatโ€™s being/been mastered by Brendon from the band. Vague worries about being duped by potentially dangerous Mountains stalkers proved as implausible as they sound. But better still, when I had a look at Pausalโ€™s Myspace, it transpired that theyโ€™re actually pretty great.

Listening to the tracks playing there, you can immediately see the kinship with Mountains. If anything, though, Pausal drift further into a kind of ambient airspace; less overtly cosmic/psychedelic, perhaps, and more obviously related to the pure ambient excursions of Brian Eno (an easy reference, of course, but it seems particularly apposite here).

Thereโ€™s also something faintly classical about these progressions โ€“ especially the outstanding โ€œSong From A Cloth Pocketโ€ โ€“ which reminds me of a lunar Arvo Part or, perhaps more accurately, Gavin Bryars. Have a listen, anyway: as you might imagine, weโ€™ve booked them for the Mountains show, too.