Track Listing

1. Axis: Thrones Of Love
2. Execution
3. While We Were Dreaming
4. Vampire
5. Holiday
6. Come Down
7. Outside Love
8. And I Thank You
9. Gayest Of Sunbeams, The
10. Closer To Heaven

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13227 in Music
• Released on: 2009-05-04
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .13 pounds

Customer Reviews

Any Colour, So Long As It's Black Or Pink (8/10)
It comes as no surprise that the latest Pink Mountaintops comes off like a more relaxed Black Mountain, for many of the band members and leaders are the same. Black Mountain is their symbolic outlet for quality slabs of stoner rock, this loftier version in rose, home to gentle pysch-rock, more in line with Spiritualized's recent, and excellent, Songs in A&E, than with the heavy riffing of last year's In the Future.

Outside Love is less jarring and challenging than Pink Mountaintops' mostly unchallenging Axis of Evol, and it is with very welcome arms that the listener greets afresh the trademark warm drone and fuzz. `Execution' borrows all of Phil Spectre's drums patterns and condenses them into one repetitive and smile-inducing `bm, bm, chk'. An alt-country riff blends seamlessly into the mix, and is reprised in `And I Thank You', a track awash with pleasing steel string. `Vampire' confirms the similarities with Jason Pierce's latest offering and is insidiously affecting. Elsewhere the affect is less strong, but `While We Were Dreaming' and `Holiday' are nevertheless complimentary.

Penultimate rocker `The Gayest Of Sunbeams' is closest to bigger brother Black Mountain and breaks into a pummelling pysch-rock riff wig out, after starting in a more pared back manner. However, Pink Mountaintops are no longer but a weaker sibling in this range, and have peaked into contender category, which should draw the mountain puns to a close, or summit.

Strong contender for end of the year polls
I've been a bit astonished by the fact that this LP had only one customer review and I thought it would be good if I tried my hand at a second one. I think this LP stands by its own merits and that the comparisons with Black Montain (from what I've heard from this last band) are not fair. Not a duff track is to be found on this album that goes from evoking Spector's early 1960 productions to pop-fuzz-rock (à la Spiritualized, circa "Let It Come Down". One Diddley beat-y track conjures up good memories of The Perfect Disaster) via a bit of Americana (à la Bill Callahan on a bright day). Every track has a tune, and some of them you can sing in your shower. I understand previous efforts by The Pink Mountaintops were more "leftfield". This one should have topped the NME Indie LP chart if it still existed.