Pink Mountaintops returns with new LP 'Get Back' in April
Steve McBean, best known for Vancouver collective Black Mountain, has resurrected Pink Mountaintops in his new home base of Los Angeles and the results are an exploration and celebration of what rock'n'roll can be.
The new album Get Back (to be released on April 29th in the U.S. and April 28th in Europe) is inspired - according to the artist - by "Alleys, curbs, walls, and cigarette-stained gig flyers. An island on the Pacific coast. Fake British towns. Slayer posters. The beauty of youth. It's about listening to 'Driver's Seat' and 'Guns of Brixton' and hotboxing The Duster."
On Get Back Annie Hardy (Giant Drag) plays sax and raps in "North Hollywood Microwaves" (featured here). Other guests include the great J Mascis, Rob Barbato (Darker My Love, The Fall, Cass McCombs), Steve Kille (Dead Meadow), Daniel Allaire (Brian Jonestown Massacre) and Gregg Foreman (Cat Power, Delta 72).
Randal Dunn (SunnO))), Earth, Sun City Girls, Boris) mixed the album at Avast! Studios (Bikini Kill, Mudhoney, Christ On A Crutch, Soundgarden) in Seattle. Howie Weinburg (known for his work with Nirvana, Beastie Boys, Danzig, Ramones, Slayer) mastered it in Laurel Canyon.
Pink Mountaintops will tour starting next week with Band of Horses and will end the dates with Melissa Nadler in LA and San Francisco.
Get Back tracklist:
01. Ambulance City
02. The Second Summer of Love
03. Through All The Worry
04. Wheels
05. Sell Your Soul
06. North Hollywood Microwaves
07. Sixteen
08. New Teenage Mutilation
09. Shakedown
10. The Last Dance
Tour dates:
02/11/14 Los Angeles, CA - Wilshire Ebell w/ Band of Horses
02/12/14 Los Angeles, CA - Immanuel Presbyterian Church w/ Band of Horses
02/14/14 San Francisco, CA - Palace of Fine Arts Theatre w/ Band of Horses
02/16/14 Seattle, WA - Moore Theatre w/ Band of Horses
02/17/14 Vancouver, BC - The Vogue Theatre w/ Band of Horses
02/19/14 Chicago, IL - Vic Theatre w/ Band of Horses
02/21/14 Los Angeles, CA - The Church on York w/ Marissa Nadler
02/23/14 San Diego , CA - Soda Bar w/ Marissa Nadler
06/06/14 Ghent, BE - Dok
06/07/14 Eindoven, NL - Eindoven Psychlab
06/08/14 Beverungen, DE - Orange Blossom Special
06/09/14 Hamburg, DE - Knust
06/10/14 Berlin, DE - Privatclub
06/11/14 Schorndorf, DE - Manufaktur
06/13/14 Luzern, CH - B-Sides Festival
06/18/14 London, UK - Corsica Studios
06/20/14 Charleroi, BE - Fete De La Musique Festival
06/21/14 Hilvarenbeek, NL - Best Kept Secret Festival