Ok, so maybe there’s a little hyperbole spewing from my fingers while listening to the new one from Black Mountain and their “Wilderness Heart”. Totally retro, totally seventies, and totally great. All the typical seventies influence is here which is unavoidable when you make, well, retro rock music. It’s pretty hard to avoid showing some influence from all the great rock touchstones of that era when reaching to put your own stamp on it. The “Black Mountain Army” (as frontman Stephen McBean and his collection of players like to call themselves), manages not to fall in to all the easy trappings of cliche by great songwriting on this. Standout tracks are the chugging and ripping “Old Fangs” (that descending organ part is just a killer, as is the organ on the rest of the record), the Communication Breakdown influence of “Let Spirits Ride”, the spaced out “Buried By The Blues”, the gorgeous closer “Sadie”, there’s really not a bad song on this one. This is a must listen and must own and really the first one of the year that sends a chill up my spine.
“The Hair Song”
“Old Fangs”
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