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BLACK MOUNTAIN's "Year Zero" soundtrack is nothing less than the band's full, balls-out glory distilled down to one dense, 45-minute acid tab of music. Featuring five new songs and five previously released songs, the "Year Zero" soundtrack weaves crunching, analog psych metal; futuristic droneouts; and, somehow, a twisted saxaphone ditty. So how on earth does a band like BLACK MOUNTAIN end up writing music in the name of the world's sunniest sport? Understand, "Year Zero" is nothing like your ordinary bro-time surfer flick. Shot around the world on 16mm film, "Year Zero" is set in a nearish future where the world as we know it has ended. Director Joe G. places the survivors in a damaged but stunningly beautiful place, a world where the reset button has been hit, where we hold onto the vestiges of the things we love, but those things become weightless, and the ensuing freedom is as exhilarating as it is scary. To simply call it post-apocalyptic is to undermine the imagination that Joe G. brings to the world's remains, and "Year Zero" is ultimately as much a "surf movie" as it is a movie about Earth illustrated through surfing. Given the new world set forth in "Year Zero", it's as if BLACK MOUNTAIN have been set free of the boundaries that "making a record" impose. Much of the new material is driven by expansive, synth-driven swirls and a dangerous, rumbling low end. Outlaw vibes, to be sure. BLACK MOUNTAIN's psychedelia has never been anchored to any one style, time, or genre. But with "Year Zero", BLACK MOUNTAIN go to a place that is intergalactic and downright ruthless, with a sound big enough to stand up to the vastness of the ocean, the bigness of the sun, and the lives of the people left living. Which is fucked up and heavy, no question, but so goes Joe G.'s vision, and thanks to "Year Zero", now we know: BLACK MOUNTAIN could actually pull off being the last band on earth Style: Rock

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Packaging is extremely attractive, with the 2xLP vinyl version coming in beautiful litho-wrapped gatefold jackets. Style: Independent

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Rich with Beach Boys style harmonies, Roy Orbison reverbs and orchestra, Pink Floyd's pacing and Freddy Mercury's falsetto, The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse is a luxurious foray into sound and music. This is the second record by The Besnard Lakes,Mont Style: Independent

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What you have here is Amateur Love's one and only full-length, initially only release on CD, now re-issued as a 12" vinyl LP. Included is a special download of unreleased recordings that I have come to know as the Ev Sessions; recorded by Ev Olcott, the great master of Minneapolis studio magic and former member of 12Rods and Halloween, Alaska. Ev produced these sessions after the release of "It's All Aquatic" sometime in 2004. These sessions are considered 'un-finished' by the band but stand as a fantastic 'that could have been' document. Amateur Love gets to always live on, thru the grooves on our turntables now. Enjoy. We all did." - Justin Vernon (BON IVER) The LP comes with a download of unreleased recordings of the "Ev Sessions" recorded by Minneapolis studio great Ev Olcott. Style: Independent

Think Can or Faust all mashed up with the personal disco of Arthur Russell. Think of the electric organ of Terry Riley's Shri Camel, slowly morphing and perpetually in motion, but remaining in step with a guitar-less and Moroder-charged Sparks. And think Style: Independent