Space To Bakersfield

 

Black Mountain - IV [JAG 277 UK 2016 24-Bit FLAC]

It is time to have your mind (and speakers) blown by Vancouver psyche-space-retro rockers, Black Mountain. The excellent sleeve tells you exactly what you are going to get here ...and you won't be disappointed as these hairy beasts unleash a barrage of heavy riffs at your unsuspecting ears with all the pomp of Zep, Sab & Floyd - only forty years later than those original rockers. 

The unimaginatively titled IV was unsurprisingly their fourth album, I think this is all you need to hear from Black Mountain as the first three albums were just a support set and they then stood no chance of following this up. Sound familiar? 

This is the UK double pressing on yellow vinyl which surprisingly sounds great, my copy came with a bonus CD of demo tracks. If you take this all too seriously then you will have no way of enjoying this album, if you take IV in the spirit in which it was created, then you'll get into this just fine.

Space to Bakersfield, are you listening?

A1 Mothers Of The Sun
A2 Florian Saucer Attack
A3 Defector
B1 You Can Dream
B2 Constellations
B3 Line Them All Up
C1 Cemetery Breeding
C2 (Over And Over) The Chain
D1 Crucify Me
D2 Space To Bakersfield

IV (Demo Recordings)

01 Mothers Of The Sun (Demo Version)

02 Florian Saucer Attack (Demo Version)

03 Line Them All Up (Demo Version)

04 Cemetery Breeding (Demo Version)

05 Crucify Me (Demo Version)