Plus, check out this killer live footage from March’s sold out DC9 show on the All Our Noise website. This was a great show.

And, this – a rather amusing Buzzfeed shout out !!

We have new items up in the shop : a new Tshirt and poster.

Our June tour is coming up, dates on the tour page. We are excited to get to these cities in the midwest and even all the way out to Denver! Find us on Facebook or Twitter to connect and say hello out there y’all!

After an action-packed trip to SXSW, Mount Moriah are currently on tour in support of their critically-acclaimed sophomore album Miracle Temple. Today, they have announced even more dates beginning June 13 in Pittsburgh. A full list of tour dates is on the tour page, including spring dates with labelmate Telekinesis.

Building on 2011′s self- titled release, Miracle Temple boasts fuller arrangements, replete with forceful vocals and lyrics that read like prize-winning poetry. The instrumentation’s more soulful, the choruses more rambunctious, and the band’s vision of the South is even more intricate — and conflicted — than it was before. No stone goes unturned: whether it’s meditations on gender or reminisces of ex-lovers, Miracle Temple supplies both eloquence & rock ‘n’ roll in abundance.

Mount Moriah was chosen as one of Spin’s 5 Best New Artists and Popmatters deems Miracle Temple “a lush, deeply layered, sunburst of a record.” Other positive reviews can be found at Pitchfork, the AV Club, American Songwriter, MTV Hive and more! Also, watch their stripped down performance of “Bright Light” for WFUV at Austin’s famous Hotel San Jose & their visit to WBEZ Chicago’s Afternoon Shift!

Watch the video for “Bright Light”. Miracle Temple is available now on CD, LP and digital download in the Merge store. Also available at your local record store, at iTunes, Amazon, Spotify & Rdio.

ALL TOUR DATES HERE!

Wednesday March 13 2:00 pm Rookie Magazine Presents Urban Outfitters Backlot Sesh (2406 Guadalupe Street)
Thursday March 14 12:30pm HGTV and Paste Present Stages on Sixth (508 East 6th Street)
Thursday March 14 11:00pm Merge Records Showcase at the Parish (214 E 6th St)
Friday March 15 2:10pm Music By the Slice at Homeslice Pizza (1415 S Congress Ave)
Saturday March 16 1:30pm KDHX Twangfest at the Broken Spoke (3201 S Lamar Blvd)

Being long time independent record store employees and shoppers, we would love for you to buy Miracle Temple from your local independent record store.

If you’d like to buy direct from Merge you can go here.

Or, if you prefer digital, you can purchase here from iTunes US.

You can also get the album here from Amazon.

Our first album, Mount Moriah, can be found on LP via Merge, or on CD via Holidays For Quince records, and digitally here.

Additionally, for you streamers out there, or for those who also need to hear the record all day at work, the record can be found at Rdio and Spotify now.

We will also be heading out on the road in March and April, our tour dates are on the tour page! Please come say hello!

We thank you for reading and listening!!

xx Mount Moriah

“Mount Moriah seem more confident than ever, pushing into new territory without a single sign of trepidation.” ~ Shuffle

“Given the hip genre bonafides, there’s some “alt” in this country for sure, but Mount Moriah quietly buck tradition and never offer themselves up as the “anti”-anything.” ~ Spin, Artists to Watch

“a lush, deeply layered, sunburst of a record” ~ Popmatters

“The album’s stand out track is ‘I Built A Town’, which is the sort of Muscle Shoals throwback that many attempt and few land. The strings swell, the organ whirrs, and you imagine a bouffanted McEntire, a la Dusty in Memphis, wiping her tears away as the back-up girls coo.” Pitchfork

Hear the track at Stereogum and Pitchfork as well, thanks Stereogum and Pitchfork!

Mount Moriah will release Miracle Temple, their breakthrough second LP and first new album for Merge Records, on February 26, 2013.

Fiercely contemporary yet rich with classic influences, Mount Moriah’s Miracle Temple sports bigger arrangements, louder guitars, bolder vocals, and more soulful rhythms than their acclaimed self-titled debut. Through their artful personal storytelling, the band develops a piercing portrait of a “New South” where progressive traditions are still fitfully breaking free from conservative ones. Mount Moriah’s cathartic vision for their home and themselves is writ large in their lovingly critical negotiation with romantic, political, and gender identities; geographical perspective; confrontation and forgiveness. The drive for change, resolute but tinged with regret, is arrestingly captured in the cover image of a burning barn.
Singer/guitarist Heather McEntire says, “I feel like there’s a lot of confrontation in this record that stems from the confidence we developed doing the first one by ourselves.” That newfound clarity of purpose results in music that balances nervy beauty and resounding force, in beautifully wrought lyrics that compress condemnation and confession into subtle poetry. “Things that were almost questions before are more like answers now,” says guitarist Jenks Miller. “There was a timidity to Heather’s voice on the first record, singing in this naked way without distortion. Now, it’s commanding, which allows the arrangements to do more.”
McEntire and Miller are at the heart of Mount Moriah. Bassist Casey Toll joined the band in 2010, while James Wallace provided drums, organ, and piano on the album. Miracle Temple was recorded over five days at Beech House in Nashville and co-produced by Mark Nevers, Miller, and McEntire; mixed by Nevers; and mastered by Alex McCollough. McEntire, Miller, and Toll wrote the music, with all lyrics by McEntire except for “Union Street Bridge,” co-written with the poet Sarah Messer. Additional tracking was done by Miller, James Wallace, Jeff Crawford, Jaron Pearlman, and Daniel Hart. The expanded arrangements feature an impressive variety of guest stars. Hart provides violin, and Allyn Love plays pedal steel. Indigo Girl Amy Ray sings gospel-tinged backing vocals alongside Bibis Ellison, Ryan Gustafson, and Midtown Dickens’ Will Hackney and Catherine Edgerton.
Recently released on vinyl for the first time, Mount Moriah’s self-titled debut quickly put them on the national radar. They were tapped for a national tour with the Indigo Girls; endorsed by Pitchfork, NPR, The Onion A.V. Club, Stereogum, PopMatters, and others; named the creators of North Carolina’s best 2011 album by Shuffle Magazine; and featured on Bon Iver’s celebrity playlist on iTunes. Much acclaim focused on the riveting stage presence of McEntire, hailed by the Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle as the kind one rarely discovers, a sentiment echoed by Paste Magazine’s Shane Ryan who wrote: “McEntire fits into that rarified subgroup of charismatic performers. … When she sings, the transformation begins. The energy is evident in her eyes […] and in her voice, a powerful instrument capable of finding the perfect emotional tone within the lyrics. … I left the venue knowing Heather McEntire will be huge.”
Miracle Temple is available for pre-order now in the Merge store on CD and LP. Also, throughout the holiday season, LP pre-orders will receive a free Merge slipmat. Mount Moriah’s self-titled debut is now available on LP in the Merge store as well. Don’t forget . . . the Merge Holiday Code works on pre-orders, too!