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Mar 31, 2016The band’s masterwork to date, IV delivers a listening experience as thrill-packed and invigorating as the loftiest comparisons you can throw at it.
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Apr 5, 2016Black Mountain is a sturdy reminder that that music is still as vibrant and remarkable as it’s ever been and that there are great minds still capable of making meaningful music that can provide the listener with a transcendent experience and carry them out of the darkness and into the light.
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Mar 31, 2016At their best, Black Mountain approach '70s rock with a 21st century mindset, and that's the sort of sound and feel that make IV so effective.
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Mar 30, 2016Their fourth album reveals the breadth of the genre.
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Mar 29, 2016Working with producer Randall Dunn again at the famed Avast! Studio in Seattle (fortifying that West Coast pedigree), Black Mountain have become more capable than ever of transmuting their kaleidoscopic visions into a volcanic unison.
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Mar 25, 2016The wait is worth it. IV consists of 10 expansive and eclectic songs that straddle genres and push boundaries.
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MojoMar 24, 2016The interplay between Stephen McBean's laconic drawl and Amber Webber's gothic-tinged wail remains their secret weapon, lending a lean bite to this hefty psychedelic behemoth. [May 2016, p.93]
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Mar 24, 2016IV isn't Black Mountain's most ferocious album, but you might well find it their most profound.
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UncutMar 24, 2016Stephen McBean's merry bunch have toned down the heavier impulses of 2010's Wilderness Heart on this fourth album, plumping instead for a collision of gruff psychedelia, trippy space-folk and pulsing electronica. [May 2016, p.69]
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Mar 31, 2016Where they once aspired to be your blood-pumping druganaut, Black Mountain now excel at the art of making you uncomfortably numb.
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Mar 28, 2016The songs on IV are massive, cosmic things, beautiful in their own right, even if the synths can occasionally sound a little cheesy.
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Apr 7, 2016IV is impeccably produced, one that tailors even the finest details with a delicate brush; even when it disappoints it’s still a joy to listen to since every instrument is mixed to perfection.
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Apr 4, 2016Though not their best record, IV is nevertheless an excellent addition to the group's staggeringly consistent discography.
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Mar 29, 2016Also of note is the eyebrow-raising "Cemetery Breeding," a surprisingly uptempo song with downer lyrics about a tryst among tombstones. These faster-paced songs bring up the clip, which does occasionally crawl at points. Despite this, IV is a compelling rocker--and among the best of the larger Black Mountain Army collective's releases.
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Mar 24, 2016IV takes a more measured pace around bleaker themes.
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Apr 28, 2016Cosmic and eerie, the disc pays ample homage to the influences from whom IV swipes its title.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 14 out of 16
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Mixed: 1 out of 16
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Negative: 1 out of 16
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Apr 6, 2016