THE PRETTY LITTLE LIGHTNING PAW E.P.

Thee Silver Mountain Reveries are what happens when the regular members of A Silver Mt Zion swap their instruments around and play a rawer, rockier, almost punkier (as with the intro to More Action! Less Tears!) style of post-rock from what fans of the band are used to. It's a neat little experiment, and whilst I think it would begin to wear if stretched over the length of a full album as a half hour EP it's an interesting alternate twist on A Silver Mt. Zion's sound. It seems that when Godspeed You Black Emperor went into its long slumber the Mt. Zion side project picked up most of the creative slack, and Pretty Little Lightning Paw sees them continuing their run of excellent albums.