Black Mountain, the front-line soldiers for the Black Mountain Armyan arts collective from Vancouver, British Columbiawrite, perform, and record music that speaks (and sings) to this realization: that solutions are rarely simple, that the world is as complex as it is ambiguous, and that music sprinkled with an inoculating dose of madness may well be the Pied Piper that takes us all back into the primordial mountain, where our hearts can be made steady and our minds can be set free.
Their debut self-titled record, like a space probe built of erector set parts and transmitting secret and arcane messages to Earth by string, charts territories unknown yet remains grounded by the roots of classic rock and roll. Its easy to discern these roots: Black Sabbath, Animals-era Pink Floyd, Blue Cheer, Led Zeppelin, and Can. Principal songwriter Stephen McBeans vocals are a smoother, bluesier amalgam of the voices of Neil Young, Mick Jagger, and perhaps James Brown loaded on cough syrup. And when Amber Webbers voice joins Stephens, the combination brings to mind the potency and chemistry of Richard and Linda Thompson singing together on Shoot Out the Lights, or of Meat Loaf and Ellen Foley howling together on Bat Out of Hell.
Musical comparisons aside, the Black Mountain full-length is one part protest song, one part pop-cultural commentary, and one part sick-groove-rock casserole peppered with mesmerizing ballads and intoxicating ditties. Modern Music is the lead-off hitter and counts its way to the imposing and riff-rife Dont Run Our Hearts Around. Immediately thereafter, the sludge-rock masterpiece Druganaut establishes the fecund heart and tone of the record.
This special 20th anniversary edition of Black Mountain adopts the remastered audio from 2015s expanded release and is available in limited quantity on clear shadow wave vinyl.
A rollicking, wildly adventurous reconfiguring of 1960s and 70s nostalgia that’s as duty-bound to the present as it is sympathetic to the past. Pitchfork, Best New Music [2005]
Black Mountains love for old school rock tropes and its jam band tendencies lend its debut a protective and timeless aura. FLOOD Magazine [2015]

Tracklist
Side A
1 – Modern Music
2 – Don’t Run Our Hearts Around
3 – Druganaut
4 – No Satisfaction
5 – Set Us Free
Side B
6 – No Hits
7 – Heart of Snow
8 – Faulty Times

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