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a r t i s t :: Pink Mountaintops
t i t l e :: Get Back
d a t e :: 2014-00-00
l a b e l :: Jagjaguwar
g e n r e :: Indie
s o u r c e :: CD
b i t r a t e :: 237 kbps avg
e n c o d e r :: LAME 3.98.4 -V 0
t r a c k s :: 10
p l a y t i m e :: 41:34
s i z e :: 70.72MB
tracklist
1 Ambulance City 5:02
2 The Second Summer Of Love 3:56
3 Through All The Worry 3:21
4 Wheels 3:25
5 Sell Your Soul 3:48
6 North Hollywood Microwaves 5:01
7 Sixteen 2:44
8 New Teenage Mutilation 3:18
9 Shakedown 3:18
10 The Last Dance 7:41
releasenotes
Opening with the fuzz-tastic "Ambulance City," a largely nonsensical lo-fi
stadium anthem that falls somewhere between the blasΘ nihilism of Parquet
Courts, the hypnotic, analog synth thrum of early Stereolab, and the erudite,
classic rock posturing of The Hold Steady, The Pink Mountaintops' fourth
long-player is dense, difficult, intoxicating, and bereft of a single dull
moment. As hallucinogen-friendly and headphone-ready as it is willfully lo-fi,
the ten-song Get Back is as spirited an outing as anything that Stephen McBean
has released with his meal-ticket band, Black Mountain, and while it might
lack some of that group's seismic follow-through, it more than makes up for
the thunder with ample amounts of psych-fueled electricity. McBean declares
1987 as "The Second Summer of Love" on the album's second cut, a propulsive
slab of nostalgia that wrestles and ultimately forces its angular post-punk
framework into a shoulder-padded new wave sport coat, a trick used again with
great aplomb on the dizzying Echo & the Bunnymen-meets-The Smiths-inspired gem
"Wheels." McBean and company stretch those retro parameters further down the
scale, flexing their classic rock muscles on the Crazy Horse-kissed "Through
All the Worry" and the wistful and broken "New Teenage Mutilation," the latter
of which sounds like it was delivered via a beat-up, alternate universe E
Street Band that never made it out of "Jungleland." Four records in, Pink
Mountaintops sound less like a ballast-blasted side project and more like a
streamlined, fully functioning beast. Get Back isn't pretty -- this is a
sloppy, wet kiss of a record that leaves a little sick on you -- but it's
heartfelt enough to win you over and dangerous enough to wish you had told
someone before you got into the car with it, which is what rock & roll in its
purest form should be.
http://www.pinkmountaintops.com
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