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- Artist: Pink Mountaintops
- Album: Axis of Evol
- Label: Scratch/Jagjaguwar
- Year of Release: 2006
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- Reviewed by: dscanland on 2006-04-06
RecommendIt is so strange that I never liked Jerk With A Bomb that much. Stephen McBean's other projects are proving much more fruitful anyway so I don't think I was alone in my sentiment. Case in point is the second track on Axis of Evol, "Cold Criminals". It's so repetitive but yet so hypnotic. It's brilliant. And just when you think you have come out of the haze of that song we are subjected to "New Drug Queens", the most aggressive song on the album. You think you are woken but this heavier track somehow lulls you back to that hypnotic state. Well, not as much as "Slaves", which drones on for almost 9 minutes. It seems as though the album evolves from this epic. "Lord, Let Us Shine" actually reminds me of early Beck. I really enjoyed Axis of Evol and would highly recommend this album. Call freak/folk if you want, it's just damn groovy. Excuse me while I track down those old Jerk With A Bomb albums.
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on 2006-09-26 patchen Said:
Vancouver's Stephen McBean brings his lo-fi tent show back to town, and more ill gospel for the revival. This time through, there are seven songs of death, mystical revelation, redemption and sexual tourists, all delivered with the 'Tops' patented Hank Williams singing through a leather mask in Jandek's basement. "Plastic Man, You are the Devil" may be the best song Robert Johnson didn't live long enough to write. "Lord Let Us Shine" will never get on Holy Roller Radio because it speaks too much truth about real, fragile faith. "Slaves," like "New Drug Queens," shows some of the many other choices there are out there to find salvation. But rather than preach, McBean leaves all questions up to the listener which, as free folk, is as it should be.
Rating: 10/10
