Boombox Blitz: Moes Anthill unfolds witchy fable with ‘Finding Stones’

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Things always work out how they were meant to. We can fight but only for so long, and then, fate finds its way into our lives. Through the framework of such a notion and the gritty of the open frontier, shot in various sepia tones as a tool to build and expand upon tension, Swiss outfit Moes Anthill plot out a witchy tale of foolish and reckless human desires. Frontman Mario Moe Schelbert charms through a dangerous elixir of folk, rock and blues, armed with a band of rowdy players, which includes Simone Baumann (backings, keys), Flurin Lanfranconi (double bass), Michael Boner (guitars, piano) and Clemens Kuratle’s scratchy drum work. “Finding Stones” inhabits an unnerving space between want and need, lingering on the tumultuously playful expanse of arrangements to tighten the screws of emotion even more.

“Whether time’s are good or bad / You don’t know / There’s stone crashing through the roof,” he warns, his voice whirling in mellow glow of lamplight. He pairs his stern delivery with a nearly fragile concern, and he often feels as though his worried look is penetrating your soul. It’s no shock the accompanying music video, directed by Riccardo Bernasconi and Francesca Reverdito, sinks into the skin-crawling fluster, making the viewer a spectator of some tormented carcass unearthed from yesteryear.

“You don’t know / What has been and what it’ll be like,” Schelbert later imparts, further driving the nails into the urgency of the matter. The visual allows for enough of a medium to warrant such heavy, fragile performances, and the deadly storyline remains vague in the spirit of an M. Night Shyamalan thriller. The anxiety hangs thick in the air, and you’re not quite sure what you just beheld. All of which you’re sure is that you may not sleep…ever again.

“Finding Stones” leads into the group’s new album, Quitter, out February 1, 2019.

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