The deformation produced by the rocks bending and shearing as the slab sinks into the mantle "leaves behind a scar, a weak spot".
The brothers described it as pop rock bent more toward acoustic guitar than electric.
There are three vocalists too, who initially seem to be surprising choices to sing Moroder, being of a distinctly indie rock bent: Anna Calvi, Liela Moss, formerly of the Duke Spirit, and Shingai Shoniwa, who sang and played bass with the Noisettes.
Others have written about these dense images of eroded rock, bent cypress and floating kelp as signs of Weston's despair over his own mortality, but Travis rightly judges them as the virtuoso performances of an artist totally confident in his mastery of form.
As opposed to the modern rock bent and introspective lyrics of Revelation, lead vocalist Mac Powell felt the end result of Move was a "down-home, American grassroots record with a lot more gospel elements than [Third Day have] ever had before".
In mythology, Tantalus, chained to a rock, bent down to drink from the pool of water around him – and the water receded just out of reach.
At least since World War II, when investigators found that music could have a therapeutic effect on shell-shocked soldiers, science has set about discovering how and why, as the English poet-playwright William Congreve noted, "music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak".
Results indicate that roof rocks experience bending and shear-slip along the coal-rock interface.
Some of the vegetation that has taken root between the rocks is bent over in the downstream direction.
