* aural cavity located on the sides of the head for insertion of local music scene
The COMPASS Group, February 2004

Mountaineers/ Messy Century/Mute By Nick Lai

      On Messy Century, their full-length debut on the Mute label, the Liverpool-based Mountaineers seem to fall asleep at the wheel while listening to English folk music. Their lorry drifts lazily off the road, caroming into the Beatles tradition, motoring through a field of psychedelic poppies, and finally crashing through the wall of a corner shop full of secondhand mixers and monstrous extension chords.