- Record Label: Jagjaguwar
- Release Date: Apr 3, 2012
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May 30, 2012It's that care and attention that leaves the older songs sounding fresh and like they belong, the newer stuff sounding great and the album as a whole sounding cohesive and pretty awesome.
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Apr 17, 2012three of the five new tracks are worth getting hold of, but the rest will be familiar. Does it hang together as an album? Definitely--it's a pretty accurate summation of the band's career so far, and would be a terrific way to introduce yourself to them if you haven't already done so.
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Apr 3, 2012A little like a greatest hits, a little like a soundtrack, and a little like a collaborative art project, Black Mountain's 51 minutes of music for Year Zero serve as a reminder of how good this band has sometimes been and as a tease of the music they might still make.
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Apr 3, 2012Year Zero is a successful revisit and reminder of what Black Mountain does best: riff-based psychedelia with a decisively modern bent.