| Mountain Rock | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Dear Nora |
| Cover: | Mountain Rock album.jpg |
| Recorded: | December 2003 |
| Length: | 31:58 |
| Producer: | Katy Davidson |
| Prev Title: | The New Year |
| Prev Year: | 2002 |
| Next Title: | There Is No Home |
| Next Year: | 2006 |
Mountain Rock is the third record by Portland-formed indie pop band Dear Nora. It was originally released through Magic Marker Records in 2004. In 2017, it would receive a critically applauded reissue through Orindal.
Mountain Rock has been applauded as an "overlooked anti-folk masterpiece" and an "indie pop masterpiece".[1] [2] It has also been called a "lo-fi folk-pop classic".[3]
Mountain Rock has been welcomed with mostly positive reviews towards both its 2004 release and 2017 reissue. Quinn Moreland of Pitchfork called it Davidson's "most complex album". Moreland credited tracks "You Are a Bear" and "Oxygen & the Mellow Stuff" with anticipating indie pop musician Frankie Cosmos and the "charmed beltings" of indie rock duo Girlpool.