Black Mountain

don't know other oneida albums. "secret wars" is good but a bit too indulgent for my tastes to make for habitual listening. "black mountatin" is completely fat-free, just a really good rock album. the first dead meadow album is too sludgy for me to get that into.

i love this black mountain record though - psyched to hear the split with Destroyer!!

Also of note: the awesome drummer/keyboard player for Black Mountain plays keyboards for Pink Mountaintops.

the band more or less changed their sound every album in the initial years, ya know.

My sideburns just grew an two inches listening to this album.

The latter.

Anyway, yeah this album in incredible. Well, maybe *incredible* is a tad too strong, but it's still pretty damn great. They "get" it. Always so encouraging to encounter a new band who gets it. The drummer is real solid. This album makes me want to have sex. I listened to it twice last night walking around the city. I don't so much hear the Led Zep comparisons though. The album is kinda front-loaded to make you think it's gonna be a Pageian riff-o-rama, but it's pretty subtle, dreamy in places. the Head East comparison was pretty funny though. And not all that inaccurate! I thought Head East had a girl singer too for the longest time. Then I finally picked up a copy of Flat As a Pancake and looked at the picture on the back of the dudes eating lunch, and I was like "where is the girl??"

Can't wait to see 'em live.

i'll probably pick this up, you know. it is good.

oneida > dead meadow >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> black mountain

I admit the more there is talk the more I am duly curious.

Cool to see this thread revived and to find out there's a new album and tour - I just threw this (2005 rekkid) on the turntable last night on a whim and really enjoyed it - glad I didn't get rid of it, cause a bunch of my friends really slag that release...

make new friends

Friends who ROCK.

(Does Lightning Dust have new stuff out? And man, the new album is all watermarked and shit… Which means I have to be careful when I rip it to listen on my mp3 player).

i thought this thread would be about the US literary movement :P

I liked last one, but mind-blowing? I ask you: Are you experienced? Have you ever been experienced?

Lightning Dust just has the one album that came out in the spring. And probably that'll be it for a while since BM has the ol' new album thing happening.

wow, what an influential place. they counted john cage, willem de kooning, and buckminster fuller among their faculty, spawned the black mountain poets, staged the first-ever "happenings" (in the THIRTIES)...

...wait, we are talking about black mountain college, right?

little late there...

Sabbath meets… some '70s prog with a chick singer that I can't think of off the top of my head.

some of their tunes remind me of a more psychedelic version of songs by songs: ohia or electric magnolia co. which is weird, because i don't really like either of those groups. mostly on the songs with male/female harmonizing, like 'voices'

they were great on friday. their new stuff definitely has a sabbath vibe to some of it. 'druganaut' ruled, i wished they would have played the extended version and then extended that out to 15 minutes. cave mountain singers were pretty good, too

Pretty good last night. That chick is more a warbler live, and she looks lost when the rest of the band's rockin' without her.

Still, pretty fucking good. We did get the 15 minute Druganaut, and a pretty sweet version of Don't Run Our Hearts Around.

Live, the Cream Clapton tone of the guitar comes through a lot more, and there's more emphasis on the moog, which I like.

The first track off the new album is a bina fide banger

Spina bifida, that should say

I dig this new album.

Fantastic performance in Nottingham last Thursday in advance of their appearance at ATP; they really blew me away. They had no new product to push, save for a tour-only 12" containing two tracks that won't be on the new album (plus a voucher giving you a password for downloads of the same tracks). There's also a free download of "Tyrant" from the new album on their website.

soooo much goodnesss. fucking bright lights.

This will certainly be in my top 5 of 2008. Phenomenal.

Black Mountain - In The Future - 2008

just finally got the s/t record...great stuff...can't wait to get the new one.

first one is interesting mix of kinda VU style fuzzy pop tunes and ominous sabbath-goes-prog doomy epics...love it!

song off the new lightning dust record has a great lindsey buckingham vibe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEymIoJwW0k

Lightning Dust record is one of my favorites of the year. They do synth music well.

So they got some of their gear stolen while they were on tour and now a bunch of local bands here are holding a benefit gig for them. Gotta wonder why Black Mountain don't just play a benefit concert for themselves!

because their gear got stolen

If they stood on milk crates playing kazoos Black Mountain would sell more tickets than these local bozos no-ones ever heard of.

Saw Black Mountain last night. They were really good live. The synths and keyboards sounded huge. Need to finally break down and check out some of their records.

their debut album rules

debut is great a little more VU gone heavy vibe, Into the Future is also amazing