03052014 - Pink Mountaintops "Get Back"

Oh Stephen McBean and your bunch of scurvy rascals, will you never cease to amaze me? The first song on "Get Back", "Ambulance City", reminds me of the mighty Silverbullit - and if that's not a stamp of approval nothing is! The thing about Pink Mountaintops - McBean's band for doing everything and anything he doesn't feel fits in as a part of Black Mountain - is that you can never feel too sure about what they are gonna sound like from album to album. The first record was pretty psychedelic and trippy, and the previous release, "Outside Love", was a journey in mellowness. This, however, seems like a celebration of British bands like The Alarm and other bands who shall remain nameless. What we have here is songs that are so good that you will forget that bands like The Gaslight Anthem ever existed, and that instantly feel like they are about to become part of your own personal memory book. This is a GREAT album, and if you miss out on these songs you are officially lost!