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A List of the Burning Mountains Image
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  • Summary: The 12th full-length studio release for the Brooklyn rock group consists of two nearly 20-minute long tracks.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 9
  2. Negative: 1 out of 9
  1. Nov 16, 2012
    82
    Burning Mountains plays like a kind of indignant opus, composed within proximity to the epicenter of a psychotropic maelstrom.
  2. Nov 20, 2012
    80
    A band that started with Can's hypnotic propulsion has ended up floating in Tangerine Dream's weightless free formity, but it's gorgeous stuff.
  3. Jan 16, 2013
    80
    The A List of Burning Mountains performance is a stand-out LP, which shows a pleasing growth of confidence to expand beyond the confines of hyphen-rock.
  4. Nov 16, 2012
    72
    As big and bold as it can sound, there's little here that's especially flashy or blatantly attention-seeking.
  5. Nov 20, 2012
    70
    A frequently harmless, occasionally dangerous, and mostly curious album of oscillating noise drones and arryhytmic, spasmodic drumming.
  6. Nov 16, 2012
    70
    It's an immersive, oddly soothing pit stop of a record for these stubborn stalwarts of experimental rock, perhaps just a quick rest after their delightfully unchecked ambitions spawned triple records and 12-hour improvisational sets.
  7. Magnet
    Jan 4, 2013
    10
    The whole record is all skittering drums never finding their place, and shivering synths that drift in search of a landing pad. [No. 94, p.58]

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