Black Mountain

Key tracks:

Stormy High
The Hair Song
Old Fangs
Modern Music

Label: Rough Trade Publishing

Read Description:

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

Black Mountain mix Sabbath riffola with Zeppelin-y hooks and the kind of keyboard flourishes that were once the domain of men in capes to create pure classic rock. With two LPs behind them, and numerous offshoot bands, this force of rocking nature are back with their third album, Wilderness Heart.

The new record is packed with succinct rock songs that pulse and pound with startling precision: it pummels you and you ask for more. This is arguably the band's tightest, most concentrated venture, but there's still plenty of raw rock energy at work. But far from being a regurgitated rock cliché, the record shimmers as much as it bulldozes, humours as much as it rages, while flexing a more pronounced pop sensibility that probably gained them their appearance on the Spiderman 3 soundtrack.

Listen to the tracks above for a selection from all three albums.

Things to watch:

Set Us Free

Releases we represent:

Into the Future | Album | Rough Trade Publishing | 2008
Black Mountain | Album | Rough Trade Publishing | 2005
Wilderness Heart | Album | Rough Trade Publishing | 2010

Quotes:

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

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

"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

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

"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