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Wilderness Heart

Black Mountain

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Black Mountain takes the back roads to find their impressions of classic rock. Led Zeppelin influences are recognizable on “The Hair Song” and in the acoustic flow of “Radiant Heart,” but the band’s true touchstones are obscure psychedelic rock albums and early ‘70s druid-folk and heavy metal, along the lines of Deep Purple. Amber Webber and Stephen McBean collaborate on vocals that turn things into quite exciting trips. Synthesizers accentuate the creepy duets on “Radiant Heart” and organ adds to the Black Sabbath-Deep Purple crank of “Rollercoaster.” “Let Spirits Ride” is Sabbath’s “Symptom of the Universe” taken to new ends. “Buried By the Blues” is an Americanized or Vancouverized version of Fairport Convention. “The Way To Gone,” with its distorted lead vocal, is a crunchy garage-punk tune gone prog-rock. The title track provides more apocalypse before “The Space of Your Mind” and “Sadie” end the album with quieter moments of great heart and emotion. Black Mountain take so many classic styles and twist them into their own voices, capturing a wondrous and loud sound worth exploring at length. 

Customer Reviews

Aural Joy

Concrete structured songs that somehow maintain the driving free fall we fans of Black Mountain know and love. Perfect use of the masculine and feminine vocals create a soaring sound that grabs you on the first listen and pulls you in deeper on each successive spin. Highly recommended.

Bleh.

Sounds like In The Future only less creative, less interesting and less good. I was really disappointed, but maybe I'm the only one. This album has been vouched for by a few people whose reviews I always enjoy. Regardless, I hope their next album has a little more passion to it and a little less production.

Re. Shamvancouver

I'd agree that the last album was a touch better but I really don't think this album merits 1 star. I see it as an album where the band is trying to expand and try some new stuff. As a result it is not as consistent but it is still a solid album worth pickin up.

Biography

Formed: January 01, 2004 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Cana

Genre: Alternative

Years Active: '00s, '10s

After founding Jerk with a Bomb in the late '90s, Stephen McBean had by the mid-2000s transformed the Vancouver-area band into a group called Black Mountain. Drawing on blues, psychedelia, acid rock, and the Velvet Underground, Black Mountain's sound was a cross between the darkness and grit of the Warlocks and Brian Jonestown Massacre's trippiness. After debuting in October 2004 on Jagjaguwar with the 12" Druganaut, Black Mountain stayed with the label for an eponymous full-length, issued the following...
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