Black Mountain

The first time I heard about Jagjaguwar's Black Mountain in what an album review for their 2005 self titled debut album and the writer described them as a mix between Sabbath, Dinosaur Jr., and Neil Young or something or other. Needless to say I was intrigued and none disappointed when I picked the album up. The band are a composite of genres bound to perk your ears up as any record of theirs will do to mine. Murky Psychadelica, Acid laced Rock 'n' Roll, and Blues that roll and tumble right in to your headphones or out of your set of speakers.

The below track comes from the bands 2005 EP Druganaut, also released on Jagjaguwar. I posted it because as I was listening it reminded me very much of a certain Stooges song, though with vocals by someone that sounds a tid like Lucinda Williams. That too picqued my interest. Just imagine Lucinda or someone of her ilk sitting in with a band like the Stooges. That alone is the reason the recording industry must live on in some shape or form. Adding to The Stooges thing, the liner notes to the EP thank Iggy and co. so perhaps Black Mountan riffed too hard or have some other connection to The Stooges. No matter any thanks The Stooges get from anyone is deserved.

Before moving onto the track, a few weeks back I bought another Jagjaguwar album by The Pink Mountaintops and noticed that the cover to the album was the same, though in a different color shade, as The Black Mountain album. Upon a little discovery it was revealed that PMT is a side-project for some of the guys in BM. Additionally, Black Mountain who hail from Vancouver are one of the bands in The Black Mountain Army which is sort of like an Elephant 6 thing I guess. Their Wiki page decodes all of this if you are at all interested.


If you visit the band's webiste you can download a couple of tracks from their various enterprises. Black Mountain also has a track included on the upcoming Spiderman 3 soundtrack.

Bicycle Man

If you like this track, check out the EP which is full of some excellent spaced out tracks or the band's self titled album. Both can be purchased from Jagjaguwar. You should check out their site no matter since they have plenty of kick ass bands and tracks for download or sampling.

Photo taken from the bands website.