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Album review: The Ghost Of The Mountain by Tired Pony

Mild-mannered 'supergroup' Tired Pony emerged as a countrified project for Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody, along with REM guitarist Peter Buck and bandmates including producer Garret 'Jacknife' Lee and Belle & Sebastian drummer Richard Colburn. While their 2010 debut The Place We Ran From was a speedy endeavour, it sounds like they've relaxed into the Americana trail on follow-up The Ghost Of The Mountain.

Certain notes recur. Lightbody's plaintive vocals still relate lovelorn, angsty sentiments over easy-going grooves and while their debut featured a cameo from US actress/singer Zooey Deschanel, guest vocalists here include Minnie Driver.

The solid songcraft never canters out of the comfort zone for these talented players but numbers such as the electro-roots of I Don't Want You As A Ghost, the gospel-tinged Blood and the tremulous Ravens And Wolves are well arranged. It's earnest stuff that's easy to warm to.

Verenigde Staten / Verenigd Koninkrijk
Rock / Country
Label: Fiction

    I Don't Want You as a Ghost (4:00)
    I'm Begging You Not to Go (3:20)
    Blood (4:00)
    The Creak in the Floorboards (4:01)
    All Things All at Once (3:40)
    Wreckage and Bone (3:59)
    The Beginning of the End (4:38)
    Carve Our Names (3:37)
    Ravens and Wolves (4:06)
    Punishment (4:22)
    The Ghost of the Mountain (3:34)
    Your Way Is the Way Home (4:16)