What Mount Moriah's "Lament" lacks in complexity, it gains in clarity and sharpness. The band's lead singer, Heather McEntire of the punk band Bellefea, has a way of pausing before delivering a line that draws you in and leaves you waiting until she brings everything home. In the song's most devastating line, McEntire sings, "A mouthful of bees couldn't stop me from whispering, 'I don't love you.'"
McEntire says she originally wrote the song to be much slower, but that when it came time to record, she and co-collaborator Jenks Miller chose a more soulful pop sound, complete with Hammond organ, catchy guitar riff and tambourine.
The North Carolina band came about after McEntire and Miller began digging deeper into their Southern roots. "Lament" is from their self-titled debut, an infectious brew of gospel, folk, rock and country that asks questions of the establishment while looking at love from every angle.
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