The Go-To Album: Young Mountain by This Will Destroy You

A specific band, song or artist can signify a change in their music taste. In my case it comes at a specific time. Around 2008 a friend of mine introduced me to This Will Destroy You.

I expected something loud and abrasive; instead This Will Destroy You’s Young Mountain is calm and I felt the embrace of the music. The band’s sound creates an ambiance of constant contemplation, an eternal reflection.

But always calm.

As a student I always used This Will Destroy You as my go-to exam-studying band. Specific moments of each song allowed me to retain specific information that when I would play the album on the way to school, I would actually remember much of the educational content. 

Certain riffs and drumming patterns allowed me to easily remember my studying material.  I did use TWDY more as an essay-studying band than a short answer, multiple-choice types. Sometimes the sounds allowed me to explore abstract thoughts, thoughts beneficial for a university exam essay.  The album's finale can work as your essays conclusion, to the point and effective. It was always a game of fitting my conclusion into the last part of the album.

Below I have found and posted This Will Destroy You album Young Mountain.

Track listing

1 - Quiet - 0:04
2 - The World is Our _______ - 4:56
3 - I Believe in Your Victory - 12:04
4 - Grandfather Clock - 18:38
5 - Happiness: We're All in it Together - 21:20
6 - There are some Remedies worse than the disease - 29:53

Video Credit: mikeprdct22

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Audio Ambrosia is a blog dedicated to helping music fans learn about new bands I believe are extraordinary at relaxing the mind. This is not the music you find that is only duck sounds on a lake type relaxing music. These are bands from different ambient like genres that have allowed me to become a more relaxed and musically educated individual.  I used many of these bands to calm me during exams and stressful job interviews.  In many cases, these artists forced me to grow up and learn not all music needs to fit into a particular mould.

I will provide specific experiences in which a certain band helped me relax the mind and guide me through four years of university and another educational expedition of post-graduate studies.  Each week I will try to combine an experience with a band hoping either you see the bond I did, or see something different. Time of day and season is important to my listening practices so take that into consideration. To start I will provide you a taste of what is to come with my first entry, the band that started it all for me, This Will Destroy You.

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