On their fifth album Black Mountain present themselves in a new line-up and indulge in musical nostalgia. The Vancouver-based psychedelic and spacerock estate administrators around Stephen McBean have to get along without the incomparable Amber Webber on "Destroyer" - the vocal parts were taken over by Rachel Fannan (formerly Sleepy Sun). Kliph Scurlock from the Flaming Lips is there again, Adam Bulgasem (Soft Kill) for the first time.
The title of the album refers to an old Dodge, so it refers to the past, as well as the new musical direction, which partly looks like a broad-legged reincarnation of hard rock and blues rock clichés. When you listen to some songs you temporarily feel like you're in a musical time machine - these guitar solos! -While songs like "High Rise" conjure up eternal youth with an almost naïve mood. In the end Black Mountain generate with their mixture of all possible and impossible rock influences an impressively powerful sound. What's missing are the distinctive songs
The Power Of Rock
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