The song drops with the band’s new album
Canadian rockers Finger Eleven share their new single, “The Mountain.” The song is the fourth single from the band’s new album, Last Night on Earth, via Better Noise Music. The group acknowledges that Phil Collins and Genesis were a big melodic influence on the project.
The band is now propelled by a fresh musical vigor. “As we were making Last Night on Earth, there was this feeling that we were making a big Rock record,” Rick Jackett recalls. “We had done that early in our career, and then we veered away from it. But it was time to go back and embrace that bigness of the sound. Even the soft songs sound big.”
Although Finger Eleven excels at writing four-minute songs, guitarist James Black feels that the majestic “The Mountain” feels like a seven-minute epic squeezed into that time, with music as epic as the lyrics are. “The setting is a fantastical one. At its core, it’s a song about trying to find the music,” explains frontman Scott Anderson. “The ultimate search is you’re finally at the end of it. When I step back it’s talking about our own journey, but it’s dressed up in a different way. It’s the idea of just trying to find one more cool idea, and hoping it’s not the last one.”
Previously, three singles/videos have been released from Last Night on Earth. The title track came out September 19th, preceded by the thunderous “Blue Sky Mystery” featuring Richard Patrick from Filter on August 1st. It landed the band their 11th Billboard Top 10 radio hit in Canada. The high-octane “Adrenaline” (which reached the Top 20 on the Mediabase Active Rock chart) was released last year along with a video that’s logged nearly 200k views on YouTube. The song also vaulted to No. 2 on the Active Rock chart in Canada, where the song held strong in the Top 5 for over four months.
These new tunes explore time-honored Finger Eleven concepts with fresh twists. “Adrenaline” is a rousing, intense anthem about pushing forward against adversity. “Blue Sky Mystery” is another hard-hitting rocker about being beguiled by something just out of reach. “The Mountain” rides musical peaks and valleys in its quest to chase the song, about the creative process expressed in a fantasy setting. Then there is the acoustic number “Last Night On Earth,” which tackles relationship turmoil.
