Vancouver dust-kickers and Spider-Man 3 grads Black Mountain's forthcoming In The Future is one hell of a raging rock 'n' roll slab. We loved the eponymous debut, but as standout among standouts "Tyrants" should suggest, the troupe, three years the wiser and grizzlier, has upped the ante this time around. With "Tyrants," a rollicksome opening twists into an inky organ drift and then the band firmly plants its dark roots into the soil of epic (as in one of those poems), classic, apocalyptic rock.
Black Mountain - "Tyrants" (MP3)
See, it shifts and toils between the truck-stop blues of the Pink Mountaintops and the heftier jam-a-longs of Black Mountain, the wailing male female vocals overlapping to create a guitar-and-synth dashed, war torn, lightning dusted landscape where the eponymous tyrant will die by a sword, perhaps like he or she lived. Well, pretty sure it's a he.
In The Future is out 1/21 on Jagjaguwar.
