Black Mountain - Wilderness Heart - Vinyl LP

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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 our most
metal and most folk oriented record so far,”McBean says. “I’m not gonna say it’s our best record or the
album that we always dreamt of making ‘cause that’s what everyone says. It’s all about where we were at
the time the machines were rolling. You can’t control the electricity or how your limbs were moving that
day. You have to erase the visions and just go along for the ride.”
A little over a year after releasing In The Future, their critically and commercially celebrated sophomore
effort, Black Mountain started building Wilderness Heart on the west coast of America.With Randall
Dunn at the helm (Sunn O))), Boris), London Bridge Studios in Seattle saw a portion of the
construction with songs “Old Fangs,” “Let Spirits Ride,” and title track “Wilderness Heart” among others.
The preponderance of recording was held with D. Sardy in Los Angeles at Sunset Sound, which has
captured tracks from The Doors, Ringo Starr, the Rolling Stones, and more. L.A. – with its tacos and
sunsets, starlets and hills and post-Deco kitsch – was a considerable inspiration. “Just being under the
influence of one’s surroundings, as we were while recording in L.A., had a tremendous impact on the
process and the way we play. Consequently, the LA sessions have a free and summery vibe. The Seattle
sessions, made in the grey, rainy environs that we’re used to up there, have a chillier, more
claustrophobic feeling,”Wells explains.
“It’s a Black Mountain pop record, which is to say it’s nothing like pop at all,”Wells says. “This was the
fastest record we’ve ever made.We’re used to spending a lot of time deliberating over the songs and
spacing out recording sessions over years. Start to finish, this album was made in four months, which is
something like a miracle for us.We’ve never worked with producers before and that was a challenge; for
us to let go and let two outsiders into the process, D. Sardy and Randall Dunn – it took some growing
for us to be truly open, but this album is all the better for it.”
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, jalapeño salsa, Night of The
Hunter, Cactus Taqueria, Funky16Corners podcasts, DennisWilson, the house blowing up in the desert
at the end of Zabriskie Point – but, as Schmidt points out, “Who knows how these things connect with
the holistic mix of often dissonant forces that become Black Mountain?”
Indeed: Listen and find out.

Tracklisting

The Hair Song
Old Fangs
Radiant Hearts
Rollercoaster
Let Spirits Ride
Buried By The Blues
The Way To Gone
Wilderness Heart
The Space of Your Mind
Sadie