Black Mountain

Key tracks:

Tyrants
Stormy High

Label: Rough Trade Publishing

Description:

Riff-laden, powerful rock. Re-awoken references ranging from Black Sabbath to Kraut-rockers, Can.

This is one magnificent record. Baton down the hatches, it’s the follow-up to their well-received debut “Black Mountain” and it achieves new heights in the ascent to the peaks of electrifying mammoth rock. The main band from which Pink Mountaintops have sprung are based in Vancouver but are setting critics alight globally. This is a magnificent record. Elements of The Stones, Black Sabbath, and Can and the distinctively different vocal styles of Stephen McBean and Amber Webber meld to form a whole that is exciting, moving, riff-laden and powerful. Stormy High cuts through feeling like Woodstock on the edge of electrical infernos as the rains broke, a heavy nod to Led Zeppelin but without resorting to pastiche. Tyrants is an epic of highs and lows that would make Floyd proud, easy on the introspection and heavy on the feeling with killer drum breaks to boot. Lift your fists to the sky as reach the summit of Black Mountain and enjoy the view!

Things to watch:

Set Us Free

Releases we represent:

Into the Future | Album | Rough Trade Publishing | 2008
Black Mountain | Album | Rough Trade Publishing | 2005

Quotes:

"It`s captivating, cosmic stuff" Uncut 4/5

"This album eclipses their previous output and hits a consistent note of righteous force" Wire

"Heady, heavy and brilliantly executed: stoner rock for the masses" Word

"Impossibly brilliant second album. Listen to In The Future and you`ll probably care about this band for a long long time" The Sun 4.5/5

"Stephen McBean`s classic rock crew summon up any number of sonic ghosts from Deep Purple to Funkadelic. yet never stoop to mere pastiche" The Times 5/5

"This is edge of the seat stuff.. This is the stairway to heaven collapsing" Time Out 5/6

"Black Mountain`s meaty melange of Sabbath-sized riffs, hairy Hammond and Velvets drone is all muscle and no flab" The Independent 4/5

"Confident but not copyist, in the future few records will sound this dominant" NME 8/10

"This is nothing short of ready-made classics for the Guitar Hero generation" Independent On Sunday

"In short, Black Mountain rock like Rushmore" Time Out

"Believe it: they do still make them like this" Independent Information

"It`s rare to find a sophomore album that improves upon its predecessor in almost every respect but. With In The Future, Black Mountain have delivered just that" 8/10 Rocksound

"The five piece awaken a beast of a record. the song lengths are bigger, but so are the now truly mountain-sized hooks" i-D

"There is songcraft and there are spacecrafts. Black Mountain have them both. fuck the past, this is the future" 4.5/5 The Fly

5/5 Mojo

5/5 Q

"Classic rock burning with a punk spirit, this is music for the 21st century" 4/5 Metro

"Electrifying" 4/5 London Paper

"They operate so far out on the limits that their hirsute noise sounds really rather refreshing" London Lite