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Get Back
(Jagjaguwar)
Rock 鈥檔鈥� roll history filtered through the mind of Black Mountain frontman Stephen McBean.
He may be L.A.鈥檚 most unusual artist-in-residence since Werner Herzog set up shop in the Hollywood Hills, but who needs a driver鈥檚 license when everybody will come to you. Recorded in sunny Burbank, Calif. with some excellent noisemakers 鈥� J. Mascis (Dinosaur Jr.), Rob Barbato (Darker My Love, The Fall, Cass McCombs), Daniel Allaire (Brian Jonestown Massacre), Annie Hardy (Giant Drag), and Gregg Foreman (Cat Power) 鈥� McBean is in his element.
In a way the band is his alter-ego and an extension of the Black Mountain 鈥渃ollective.鈥� Of course the album title is a nod to the Beatles鈥� song with the same name but as McBean has explained in interviews the words are also all tangled up with his concept of how music history has played out.
Sonically, Get Back is loaded with Bowie and Iggy Pop references, right down to the sax. That鈥檚 a good thing. One track, 鈥淣orth Hollywood Microwaves,鈥� messes with the mood but that鈥檚 just the kind of thing Iggy would have done back in the day, too.
Pink Mountaintops play a sold out gig at Fox Cabaret on Friday, May 23. Details at .
