For the seemingly depraved depths to which Thought Forms reach on their bold second album, “Ghost Mountain,” they sore equally high in magnificent swells on songs that seem to breathe life even where there is no air. Having taken five years between albums definitely shows, as the band has carefully constructed sprawling, ambient spaces around concentrated rock and indie low-fi awesomeness.

Opening track ‘Landing’ lurches with the sort of doom-core you might expect from a band that plays only doom-core, but behind the frenetic screeches of male/female counterpoint vocals, varying intricacies of layer upon layer help keep the A.D.D. at bay. In complete contrast, the second track ‘Ghost Mountain You and Me’ earns the band their My Bloody Valentine comparisons (along-side such acts as Grooms and Swans) while putting them in a niche all their own.

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