Buzzard Posts “Mount Din” Lyric Video
“Mount Din” is the second new track from Massachusetts solo outfit Buzzard in as many months, and like “Fever Breaks” (posted here), it’s a heavied-up take on some of the ideas that songwriter/sole-denizen Christopher Thomas Elliott has been exploring over the course of this year — Buzzard‘s second full-length, Mean Bone (review here), came out in April and was preceded in January by the self-titled debut from a maybe-side-project called Satiricus Doomicus Americus (review here) — and, as he notes in the video info below, working in a not-dissimilar lyrical frame to Mean Bone closer “Ancient Ruins of the 21st Century” (video premiere here).
That album finale told the story of future archeologists looking back on the titular ruins left behind by the present day; a shopping mall interpreted as the religious site capitalism made it, and so on. “Mount Din” changes that somewhat so that it’s aliens coming to investigate the aftermath of human wreckage. The ‘Din,’ as an unpleasant and/or abrasively loud noise, was human society. There’s less precise critique in “Mount Din” than “Ancient Ruins of the 21st Century,” and in the last verse, the speaker in the song says, “I light a spark in a lump of carbon to start the experiment of life on Earth again,” which, yes, in 2025 absolutely does qualify as a hopeful ending.
I have it on decent authority that the trickling-out of new material from Buzzard is leading toward a new EP release sometime (maybe?) before the end of the year. That’s nothing concrete, mind you, so don’t go looking for a release date yet, but the underlying message is there’s more coming and I continue to spend a potentially-embarrassing amount of time thinking about the course of the interpretation of folk via doom and doom via folk happening in Elliott‘s songwriting.
There’s not a lot in “Mount Din” that sounds outwardly folkish, for example, and yet the roots of the lyrical style and the method of storytelling are unquestionably derived therefrom, and Elliott‘s clear vocal approach — even in the layers with which one finds him working in the chorus — is a tie there as well. As focused as the latest material has found him on pushing limits to see just how heavy Buzzard can get and not collapse under its own weight — so far, pretty heavy — in doing so, he’s also broadening the project’s palette as a whole for the future. Thus far, the blend of earthy melody and emergent, consuming heft has resulted in a sound that is immediately identifiable as Elliott‘s own. In terms of ‘starts,’ a better one would be tough to come by.
The lyric video for “Mount Din” follows, with more beyond about the comp it comes from, and the aforementioned Buzzard-and-adjacent 2025 LPs.
Enjoy:
Buzzard, “Mount Din” lyric video
Hello, all. I’m pleased to announce that a new Buzzard song “Mount Din” appears on the latest compilation by Santa Sangre Magazine, the Sixth Configuration, available here:
Lyrically, the song explores a different take on notions behind “Ancient Ruins…” from Mean Bone, and the music is a pure stoner doom fuzz love fest.
Thank you to Santa Sangre for the opportunity to join such an impressive, diverse array of artists.
