Artist: Black Mountain
Album: Wilderness Heart
Released: September 2010
Label: Jagjaguwar
Genre: Hard Rock
Purchase date: 02 November 2010
Format: mp3 files
Source: eMusic
This was one of the albums that I had anticipated most this year. I really loved this band's 2008 album In The Future (it was my #3 album of 2008), so when NPR streamed the album as part of its first listen series, I was there. I was not disappointed.
Wilderness Heart is Black Mountain's third album, and is even stronger overall than their last one. The songwriting and playing are both tighter and much more mature. Wilderness Heart moves even farther away from the band's stoner rock beginnings, to more of a late-'70s hard rock sound, but they manage to avoid the bombast that plagued so many of the bands of that era (and the bands of today that echo them). This is yet another band with male and female lead singers, and Amber Webber's voice is showcased much more here. This may be due to her successes as the lead in her spin-off band Lightning Dust (which was my top pick for 2009).
Standout tracks are "Rollercoaster," "The Hair Song," and "Old Fangs," but this one doesn't have a weak spot. Another winner from Black Mountain.
Rating: A
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