The Situation On a recent Thursday night, I’m at Zobel, the Central District Ethiopian restaurant where the beer’s always $3, with the members of the noise outfit MOUNTAINSS–drummer Daniel Enders, bassist Austin Hund, and saxophonist Billy Safarik, three dudes who, despite the cacophonic nature of their music, are all about love, harmony, and what they call “positive intentions.” They live in a house together not far from here, and spend most of their time being hyped about music (their upstairs neighbor recently called the cops on them for playing Sleater-Kinney too loud).How They Got Here Safarik, the kitchen manager at Ballard’s Veraci Pizza, is currently the band’s only employed member. The other two may not have jobs (“I live the life of a 12-year-old, minus school,” says Hund), but they do have big aspirations. Enders is currently busy starting a booking agency called Secondary Parallels, and someday the three want to open a restaurant/music venue/record store. Shop Talk MOUNTAINSS’ tunes are wild blends of noise rock and jazz–“Accessibility doesn’t really matter to me,” says Hund–and they purposely leave out vocals, which they say would get in the way of their instruments’ expressiveness. “If there’s a singer in a band, you kind of just end up watching the singer,” Safarik points out. “Not having a singer makes us more of a collective. It lets each of us shine at a different point.”The trio engages in other onstage antics to compensate for the lack of vocals–they frequently wear dresses, borrowed from Safarik’s sister and Enders’ ex-girlfriend, and they encourage their audiences to let their emotions play out freely during their sets. Enders tells of his first show with Hund: “I’m very opposed to violence, but someone [in the audience] blew up a TV. It was very raw and expressive.” In keeping with that anarchic feeling, MOUNTAINSS’ forthcoming full-length will be titled Animalistic Seizures of Joy.BTW: They might not sing, but MOUNTAINSS channels their uplifting spirits before each show by chanting a Hindu mantra, Om Eim Saraswatiyei Swaha, in unison (they recite it for me word-perfectly), which sends salutations to the feminine artistic spirit. “In any creative endeavor,” says Enders, “this mantra invokes energy for making the project fruitful and successful.” Like MOUNTAINSS’ music, it’s an amalgam of buzzing energy and those positive intentions.MOUNTAINSS is playing Neumos this Sunday, July 10 with Wildildlife, Red Liquid, Wet Nightmare, and So Pitted. The show starts at 7 p.m. and the cover is $5. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter.