IV by Black Mountain, released 01 April 2016 1. Mothers of the Sun 2. Florian Saucer Attack 3. Defector 4. You Can Dream 5. Constellations 6. Line Them All Up 7. Cemetery Breeding 8. (Over and Over) The Chain 9. Crucify Me 10. Space to Bakersfield The rock canon has many anti-heroes, Black Mountain being the latest. In the past, Can’s 'Tago Mago' established that the only rule in rock and roll is that there are no rules

The fourth album from Vancouver hard rock band Black Mountain rolls everything up the band has ever done-the heavy riffs, the prog ambitions, and the pop smarts-into an alternate-universe version of classic-rock history.

Black Mountain return with a more subtle, settled-down version of the band they once were. That's not to say that the group isn't effective on IV, though. The unnusual blend of stoner-rock riffs with retro sci-fi synths produces an interesting sound that is quite successfully explored by them here, with as much rock strenght as formal experimentation. I've never been a fan of Black Mountain, but they really tried to do something different here. This album is bad, and yet, it's their best record. Cemetery Breeding' is probably the band's best song, it's a pitty they buried it amidst so many normal songs. 93. Six years between two studio albums, Black Mountain has gone from pummeling hard hitting crunchy psych rock to and more melancholy, transcending tone.

Producer – Black Mountain. Producer, Recorded By, Mixed By – Randall Dunn. Recorded at Avast Studios, Seattle, WA (Avast! Recording C. Additional recording by Joshua Wells at The Balloon Factory, Vancouver BC and Stephen McBean at The Red Room, Los Angeles, CA. Rough Trade exclusive with a bonus 5 track CD housed in a thin card sleeve. Label Code: LC 29277.

Black Mountain’s newest album, the aptly (and Black Sabbath-­y) titled IV, starts exactly as it should: an eight-minute-long, wandering, twisting jam that builds from a single, repeated note. This is, of course, the Vancouverbased band’s fourth album, and their first since 2010’s Wilderness Heart. While that record was by no means bad, it was the weakest in their catalog. This new album’s opener unfurls the band’s wings again as they soar into the weird and wondrous. What follows is probably Black Mountain’s most experimental record, a record full of sparse, moody arrangements that lean heavily on the the band’s burgeoning love of synths. An instrument that was always hanging in the background of their earlier records, the spacey sounds of swirling keys now take the driver’s seat on many of the songs, droning through long passages in (Over and Over) the Chain or moonwalking under Defector.

You could probably guess roughly what Black Mountain sound like from the cover of their fourth album, which features, variously, a mysterious helmeted/masked figure, a little girl playing, a flaming plinth and Concorde. It’s time to set the controls for the heart of a pagan, doomy 1970s, where spacey synthesisers combine with doomy metallic riffs, and you can just about pick out the band through the haze of weed smoke. But maybe you need the haze of weed smoke to get the most of it: IV lacks the intense attack of the group’s very best work

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