The four gentlemen and a lady from the Canadian Black Mountain already earned their spurs in various local underground bands before they joined forces. They can now count Coldplay as fans and have even been invited as support act for their American tour. Coldplay fans will in turn have been chatting their ears, because what Black Mountain presents on their unnamed debut album has nothing to do with
… ideal son-in-law music. This is rather a dark marriage between The Grateful Dead and The Velvet Underground, while The Beatles' White Album is on repeat in the background. Hallucinating trip rock, slowly tearing guitar riffs, manic harmony vocals and a screeching sax form the main part. If the hippie psychopath Charlie Manson and his Family had made records in the 1960s instead of victims, it probably would have sounded like that. And that's a recommendation! (MR)more
