Pink Mountaintops

Key tracks:

New Drug Queens
Lord, Let Us Shine
Sweet '69
Can You Do That Dance?
Axis: Thrones Of Love
Holiday

Label: Rough Trade Publishing

Description:

Black Mountain mainman is back with ten reverbed, Spectorish alt pop love songs.

Pink Mountaintops are further proof of the prolific and original output of one Stephen McBean, music machine, co-vocalist and principal songwriter for the psych-tinged maxima rock band Black Mountain . The man has a sense of humour and it shows through in his music which is a rare thing in rock men so talented.
The eponymous debut album is a joyous, hypnotic rock romp a la Spaceman 3.. Varied production, vocal styles, and tempos make this a stunning listen. It is good 'n' dirty, no more so than on the Stones-style raunchy wonder “Sweet 69”. The joy of cool rock n’ roll is revealed on “Can You That Dance?", like cutting some rug with The New York Dolls!
Home-recorded and largely self-produced their second album “Axis of Evol” has a more fuzzy, psyche sound. From the simple, still, spiritual start of the beautiful “Comas”, the album revs up into swirls and hazes and some solid rock guitar and bass lines. “New Drugs Queens” reminds you what it feels like to be 15 and driven to stay up all night listening to dirty rock like this. Primal Scream stagger in a blissful haze to a party downtown on “Lord Let Us Shine".
“Outside Love” is their third and latest outing and they have reeled in a plethora of talented musicians to appear on this album inc. members from Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Whiskeytown, Bonnie Prince Billy and of course Black Mountain. The album consists of ten songs of love and hate that read like a Danielle Steele romance novel, influenced by weddings in Montreal, winter and Pink Floyd's The Final Cut! “Axis Thrones of Love”, a heavily Jesus & Mary-chained melody, is the slow aural psych-pop gem that sets off Outside Love, a dysfunctional heart swelling lament, chemically soaked in Leary-ian utopia. This could almost surface on “Lost in Translation”. “Holiday” feels like the Velvet Underground have had an away-day from the factory to hit Coney Island.