Black Mountain
In The Future
Jagjaguwar
2008
Rating: 7.5 small mountain towns out of 10
The phrase “stoner rock” has been getting used way too much over the last couple of years; god knows I've been guilty of throwing the phrase into a review every now and then. My first gut was to call Black Mountain's sophomore effort a good stoner rock album and leave it at that...after all, this is most certainly the first impression you get from the record. But it only takes a few more listens until you realize this record is so much more than a simple two-word descriptor could ever display. Sure, there is no shortage of heavy guitar power chords, but this band of Canucks manages to pair that at various times with synthesizers, harmonized pop-like vocals, power ballads...you name it, they drag bits and pieces of nearly every style of music into their oeuvre. Crap, they even manage to get a little prog-rock from time to time and it kills (as opposed to making my ears want to fold in on themselves like most prog-rock). Highly recommended.
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