Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Black Mountain
Wilderness Heart
(Jagjaguwar)
Former Vancouver care workers create rock mysticism.
It's not easy to make Sabbath-style proto-metal sound fresh, but Black Mountain have a way of writing songs that go to the places you hope they will without descending into cliché. Huge riffs, spooky organ sounds, tight drumming and twinned male/female vocals from Stephen McBean and Amber Webber work to make songs like Old Fangs and Wilderness Heart heavy psychedelic classics with one foot in the early 70s, while tender ballads (The Space Of Your Mind) and expansive epics (Sadie) show a range that goes beyond mere denim-clad revisionism. Perhaps because three of the band until recently worked in a Vancouver homeless shelter, but there's a lack of pretentiousness and egotism here that makes the music great. Black Mountain sound like they are in thrall to a power greater than themselves: all the cool stuff that has gone before them. The result is an inspiring, triumphant album.
Will Hodgkinson
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 28/01/2011
Further Listening
Black Mountain - In The Future (Jagjaguwar, 2008)
Wolf Parade - Expo 86 (Sub Pop, 2010)
Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses (Island, 1978)
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Loudon Wainwright - T-Shirt
An overlooked small wonder from an unpredictable career.
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Landscape - From The Tea-rooms Of Mars… To The Hell-holes Of Uranus
Dry computer club Futurists, upon hitting implausible chart paydirt.
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Causa Sui - Summer Sessions Vol 1-3
Epic Danish jams, for when the neighbours get you down.
6:00 AM GMT 12/05/2011
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Love this album. It's more Zep than Sabbath IMO.
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