- Original Release Date: 10 Sep 2010
- Release Date: 10 Sep 2010
- Label: Jagjaguwar
- Copyright: 2010 Jagjaguwar
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- Total Length: 42:49
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- ASIN: B0041TYTQC
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 16,991 in MP3 Albums (See Top 100 in MP3 Albums)
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| Play | 1. The Hair Song | 3:54 | £0.69 | |
| Play | 2. Old Fangs | 4:01 | £0.69 | |
| Play | 3. Radiant Hearts | 3:52 | £0.69 | |
| Play | 4. Rollercoaster | 5:15 | £0.69 | |
| Play | 5. Let Spirits Ride | 4:20 | £0.69 | |
| Play | 6. Buried By The Blues | 4:02 | £0.69 | |
| Play | 7. The Way To Gone | 4:03 | £0.69 | |
| Play | 8. Wilderness Heart | 3:58 | £0.69 | |
| Play | 9. The Space Of Your Mind | 4:14 | £0.69 | |
| Play | 10. Sadie | 5:10 | £0.69 | |
| Digital Booklet: Wilderness Heart | n/a | Album Only |
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By Gannon
TOP 1000 REVIEWER
Format:Audio CD
The shadow cast by Black Mountain is large and it is dark. Not content with two high-to-very-high-quality stoner/psych-rock records under that moniker, Stephen McBean and his fellow mountaineers are also responsible for the more relaxed, but equally enticing, psychedelic and rhythmic side-project Pink Mountaintops, as well as counting amongst their ranks long-time member Amber Webber, who leads the chilly, hallucinogenic splinter Lightening Dust.
Certainly not alone in his thinking, this latter project must have impressed Stephen McBean greatly. Perhaps, as a result, Webber's vocal contributions are given greater prominence on Wilderness Heart, the band's third long-player under the Black Mountain umbrella.
Her quivering effect is immediately evident, appearing decisively on the opening duet, "The Hair Song". With extra dimensions such as this on which to concentrate, a decision was made during recording not to self-produce for the first time. However, it's fair to say that this is a largely unnoticeable change, as Wilderness Heart is unquestionably as sleek as its predecessor In The Future, though, at least in parts, it is also a different beast.
It's perhaps telling that half of Wilderness Heart was recorded away from the band's native Vancouver, away even from the northerly gloom of the Seattle studios in which the current album's most iconic, most epic moments were captured. Perhaps, thanks to certain tracks having been laid down in L.A. instead, a little sunshine has been allowed to creep into the mix, and parts of the album do seem subject to a lessening in expected intensity.... Read more ›
Certainly not alone in his thinking, this latter project must have impressed Stephen McBean greatly. Perhaps, as a result, Webber's vocal contributions are given greater prominence on Wilderness Heart, the band's third long-player under the Black Mountain umbrella.
Her quivering effect is immediately evident, appearing decisively on the opening duet, "The Hair Song". With extra dimensions such as this on which to concentrate, a decision was made during recording not to self-produce for the first time. However, it's fair to say that this is a largely unnoticeable change, as Wilderness Heart is unquestionably as sleek as its predecessor In The Future, though, at least in parts, it is also a different beast.
It's perhaps telling that half of Wilderness Heart was recorded away from the band's native Vancouver, away even from the northerly gloom of the Seattle studios in which the current album's most iconic, most epic moments were captured. Perhaps, thanks to certain tracks having been laid down in L.A. instead, a little sunshine has been allowed to creep into the mix, and parts of the album do seem subject to a lessening in expected intensity.... Read more ›
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Before I get to what Black Mountain's third album sounds like, it's probably worth addressing some of the noises being made about the band itself.
Here are some of the things that you might have heard about Black Mountain: that they're Zep or Sab-dependent Stoner Rock riff merchants; that that, in fact, is all they are; that they're plodding prog dinosaurs or po-faced noodlers short on new ideas and long on indulgent track-lengths; that they're too 1969 in sound, or attitude, or pose, or keyboard noise or lyric or so forth. You may also have heard people lauding their outstanding live performances, though that might well be at the implied detriment of their recorded work.
Recently I've even seen the suggestion that they have a little too much beard about them.
It would take far too long to try and demolish all of these preconceptions, so instead let's admit to those that aren't entirely lazy. Erm. I gather they're not averse to being a bit stoned, and they certainly can rock. Oh, and some of them have beards. Yeah. The rest is probably best summarised by the word 'guff'.
After all, if we're talking about drugs in music, it's also worth mentioning that several of Black Mountain have worked on the drug/homeless outreach programmes in East Vancouver, and are far more grounded than stoner rock cliché would suggest. If we're talking about datedness in rock, it's more the case that they sound at times like what a number of people imagine music to have sounded like in 1969, rather than what the release schedules actually produced at that time. This is in the same way that Sleepy Sun are accused of retro-pilfering despite putting influences together in a way that wasn't available to the bands they're supposed to be identical to.... Read more ›
Here are some of the things that you might have heard about Black Mountain: that they're Zep or Sab-dependent Stoner Rock riff merchants; that that, in fact, is all they are; that they're plodding prog dinosaurs or po-faced noodlers short on new ideas and long on indulgent track-lengths; that they're too 1969 in sound, or attitude, or pose, or keyboard noise or lyric or so forth. You may also have heard people lauding their outstanding live performances, though that might well be at the implied detriment of their recorded work.
Recently I've even seen the suggestion that they have a little too much beard about them.
It would take far too long to try and demolish all of these preconceptions, so instead let's admit to those that aren't entirely lazy. Erm. I gather they're not averse to being a bit stoned, and they certainly can rock. Oh, and some of them have beards. Yeah. The rest is probably best summarised by the word 'guff'.
After all, if we're talking about drugs in music, it's also worth mentioning that several of Black Mountain have worked on the drug/homeless outreach programmes in East Vancouver, and are far more grounded than stoner rock cliché would suggest. If we're talking about datedness in rock, it's more the case that they sound at times like what a number of people imagine music to have sounded like in 1969, rather than what the release schedules actually produced at that time. This is in the same way that Sleepy Sun are accused of retro-pilfering despite putting influences together in a way that wasn't available to the bands they're supposed to be identical to.... Read more ›
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By R. Vincenzo
Format:Audio CD
I have just received today the cd of the latest allbum by the Canadians Black Mountain. I am already in possession of their previous two albums. I find this group expressing music that is to be considered out of time.
The music from this new album is in the same lane as their first cd, you put it in your stereo and you won't pull it out for months.
The musical proposal given by Black Mountain in this 3rd chapter is as usual close to a psychedelic rock sound of the 60's, with the incursions of their femal voce it seems very similar in some parts to a modern and cleaned out Jefferson Airplane.
I find this album though a little bit more poised and reflective, but all in all you won't get tired of it even after many listens.
I recommend this album very much, it's vintage rock that has influences from all over but at the same time is very original. Just go out and buy it and don't thank me, thank Black MNouyntain for existing.
The music from this new album is in the same lane as their first cd, you put it in your stereo and you won't pull it out for months.
The musical proposal given by Black Mountain in this 3rd chapter is as usual close to a psychedelic rock sound of the 60's, with the incursions of their femal voce it seems very similar in some parts to a modern and cleaned out Jefferson Airplane.
I find this album though a little bit more poised and reflective, but all in all you won't get tired of it even after many listens.
I recommend this album very much, it's vintage rock that has influences from all over but at the same time is very original. Just go out and buy it and don't thank me, thank Black MNouyntain for existing.
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Do you like Black?
Do you like Mountains?
Do you like Wilderness?
Do you like Hearts?
DO you like Canucks?
Do you like Crazy Canucks?
Do you like Crazy Canucks with a MELLOTRON?
Do you like it Retro?
Well I do, and this well and truly floats my Kayak. Dual male/female vocals, vast slabs of Mellotron, vast slabs of sub-Sabs proto-metal with washings of Purple and a soupcon of more modern day indieness. This is seriously good stuff. And they have beards. Probably.
Buy it, go on, you know you want to, BUY! BUY!! BUY!!!
Do you like Mountains?
Do you like Wilderness?
Do you like Hearts?
DO you like Canucks?
Do you like Crazy Canucks?
Do you like Crazy Canucks with a MELLOTRON?
Do you like it Retro?
Well I do, and this well and truly floats my Kayak. Dual male/female vocals, vast slabs of Mellotron, vast slabs of sub-Sabs proto-metal with washings of Purple and a soupcon of more modern day indieness. This is seriously good stuff. And they have beards. Probably.
Buy it, go on, you know you want to, BUY! BUY!! BUY!!!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Better & better
I have bought all their CD's. Whilst initially their influences were rather obvious, this represents a major step forward in terms of songwriting and a more unique sound. Read more
Published on 6 Feb 2011 by Hypnosisman
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Wilderness Apart....
Not being Canadian, I don't know anywhere near as much about the band or
it's members as other reviewers here, but I was looking for new
material to get into and I... Read more
it's members as other reviewers here, but I was looking for new
material to get into and I... Read more
Published on 14 Dec 2010 by whitedragon
4.0 out of 5 stars
Excited times
Time will tell where Wilderness Heart stakes in comparison to Black Mountains other records. The Only thing matters now is that this record is stuck in my player and this record... Read more
Published on 30 Oct 2010 by Calistan
5.0 out of 5 stars
Like the last thirty years never happened
Black Mountain's third and best album comes with something of a health warning. It's not terribly innovative and if you aren't a fan of 70's rock then you ain't gonna like it. Read more
Published on 15 Oct 2010 by SP Crowley
4.0 out of 5 stars
...all aboard the transition bus...
It's their Led Zep III. Kinda. Yes, the Vancouver sort of rockers have blissed out, mellowed out and got their heads together in the country. Man. Read more
Published on 27 Sep 2010 by Mr. H
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