Wilderness Heart

initial copies come with the four track cdep 'druganaut'. 'wilderness heart', the new album by black mountain, is packed with succinct rock songs that pulse and pound with startling precision: it pummels you and you ask for more. this is arguably the band's tightest, most concentrated venture, but there's still plenty of raw rock energy at work. it's a black mountain pop record, which is to say it's nothing like pop at all. the band cites a slew of disparate influences - new order, king crimson, studio 54, alex chilton, sunshine, janis joplin, please kill me, shirley collins, mickey newbury, jalapeo salsa, night of the hunter, cactus taqueria, funky16corners podcasts, dennis wilson, the house blowing up in the desert at the end of zabriskie point but who knows how these things connect with the holistic mix of often dissonant forces that become black mountain?