"There is renewed vitality for Black Mountain in Destroyer, an experienced hard rock veteran who has found new and young muscles to flex and paths to explore. ”
These lines are verbatim when turning the aforementioned new album completely and realizing that Stephen McBeanThe mastermind behind Black Mountain has done it again, and this time with the collaboration of new recruits in his army.
Some members, like Joshua Wells and Amber Webber, left the ranks of the project, while Arjan Miranda rejoined. Some new names and others somewhat familiar within the band and an important part in the production of Destroyer They are: Rachel Fannan (Sleepy Sun, Pussy Riot), Adam Bulgasem (Dommengang, Soft Kill), Kliph Scurlock (Flaming Lips), Kid Millions (Oneida) and producer John Congleton (St Vincent, Swans).
Three years after album release IVThe Canadian band gave us this great new production on May 24th.
The name of the album is taken from the extinct 1985 Dodge Destroyer car, and alludes to that feeling of wild freedom and a little bit to that anxiety and fear caused by being behind the wheel for the first time.
McBean goes in the pilot's seat and the tour begins with Future Shade, with that powerful melody that announces the arrival of psychedelia by Black Mountain, a good guitar riff in unison with the synthesizers, which make this a key and essential piece on the album. It was the first single we could listen to when they announced the release of this material in March.
The second hit is Horns Arising, and it keeps us on the same line, a guitar riff that will stick with you for the rest of the day, synthesizers that will not go unnoticed and vocals with an effect that transports us to the very 80's, and everything sounds “just in time to see to a UFO floating nearby. "
Closer to the Edge It is a completely relaxed and somewhat experimental track, its short lyrics are also part of the seventh song on the album, which we will read about when its turn.
High Rise It is not far from the relaxed moment of the album, the guitar sounds a bit repetitive for much of the song, which honors "The loneliest cock in the sky", as its lyrics say, which leaves the door open to any interpretation of it.
We continue down the road and it sounds Pretty little lazies, which hooks you with that acoustic guitar melody, it is dynamic and not everything is tranquility in it, since reaching the middle part we get the distortion and the synthesizers to give a little more intensity to the trip we are traveling above of the Destroyer.
The second single prior to the release of the LP, was Boogie Lover, where at the beginning, the female voice dominates and sounds along with a strong bass line. Such as McBean he talked about it "It is slow burning in a decrepit world"
The turn is now Licensed to DriveWhich alludes to the fact that Stephen McBean finally got his driver's license, and it's never too late for that. It is the single currently in rotation and is one of the most heavys from the album, which without a doubt, has all the earmarks to become a Black Mountain classic. The theme has an official video, and the combination of sound with visual, makes understand how the band describes this song: "Licensed to Drive would easily be the most exciting and dangerous ripper on a movie's soundtrack, a dose of weight just before the car's wheels shift and head at a speed of 100 miles per hour on the highway."
FD'72 He was chosen to close the album and he does it in a mystical and practically poetic way, and it makes it without a doubt, one of the album's strong and favorite songs.
Consisting of 8 tracks, Destroyer It projects us back to the band as some greats of psychedelia and makes practically, this new LP become an instant classic and necessary in the collection of any music lover or lover of the genre.
Destroyer is now available on all digital platforms and in physical formats.