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Wilderness Heart (Bonus Track Version)

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. 

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One Of The Best Bands Out There Today...

Black Mountain really delivers here on full, rockin' numbers that do not disappoint even the most insatiable musical appetites. Less Sabbath-like than their previous album, Wilderness Heart excels in terms of songwriting ability. With a warm groove and trippy keys, Old Fangs is quickly becoming my favorite song of 2010. Other hits here include The Hair Song, which has similarities to the original Blind Melon sound...and the bonus remix is much mellower, but almost as interesting. Let Spirits Ride is a full-force heavy hitter that could have easily been included on their previous album (great lyrics, too). Other highlights are the title track, Wilderness Heart and the beautifully written The Space of Your Mind. While there are a few weak points in the album (not a huge fan of Radiant Hearts), Black Mountain still delivers an album that I am happy to have pre-ordered in its entirety. Truly, they are one of the best bands out there today.

best record of the year

The album succeeds brilliantly all the way through. The best of the three Black Mountain records so far, this one still channels riffs from Black Sabbath and vocal stylings from the Pixies, but now with catchy hooks and lyrics of powerful poetry proffered through the male-female exchange of two singers. With topical content from failed romance that never really started, to social criticism, to various fantasies of hope and revenge, this album calls for listen after listen. Not because it's pretentious and obscure like many art rock bands, but because it's so engaging on so many levels. You can listen to the lyrics, or just follow the meter and rhyme of its poetry, or sit back to some dirgy power chords, or embrace moments of swirling keyboards and folk rhythms, or get fired up with some straight-ahead rock and roll riffs and guitar leads, or enjoy it all in its glorious art rock metal psychedelic totality.

Yep...

These guys keep getting better and better. I swear I heard Sabbath-era Ozzy and Tommy on "Let Spirits Ride". And J Mascis on a remix of Hair Song? H*ll yeah! Bring it!

Biography

Formed: January 1, 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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