Pink Mountaintops — the shaggy, wild-eyed project led by Black Mountain's Stephen McBean — have announced Peacock Pools, their first new album in eight years. The record is arriving May 6 on their new label home ATO Records, and today we get its first single, the rowdy "Lights of the City."
In a statement about the new single's George Mays-directed video, McBean said:
Lincoln Heights hilltop sunrise riff'n'bang sparks spree of vengeance by disgruntled ex-bass player turned cyborg tinkertronic handsome man, Ken The Walnut.
Obsessed with Pink Mountaintops demise The Walnut's sinister plot almost succeeds in a Don McClean sized wave of rock'n'roll destruction.
Thankfully, Emily Rose's Phantom of The Park summoned superpowers save the band group combo and with some collective post-dress rehearsal concert magic the former low frequency fiend is defeated. Let the rock prevail!
Peacock Pools is described as being inspired by "the sci-fi body horror of David Cronenberg, Disney Read-Along Records from the 1970s, early Pink Floyd and mid-career Gary Numan, John Carpenter movies, Ornette Coleman live videos, and a 1991 essay on the cult of bodybuilding by postmodern feminist Camille Paglia." That's a whole mess of ideas, but leave it to Pink Mountaintops to somehow make it all work.
About the creation of the record, McBean said, "I'd moved into this cool little '50s rancher house outside L.A. and was just mucking about in my bedroom studio, and pretty soon I started reaching out to some friends who were also shacked up and craving broadband sonic collaboration."
Peacock Pools features contributions from drummer/pianist Joshua Wells (Destroyer, Black Mountain), violinist/vocalist Laena Myers-Ionita (Feels, Death Valley Girls), drummer Ryan Jewell (Riley Walker, Steve Gunn), vocalist Emily Rose Epstein (Ty Segall, Emily Rose & the Rounders), and keyboardist Jeremy Schmidt (Black Mountain, Sinoia Caves).
Check out the video for "Lights of the City" and the Peacock Pools tracklist below.
Peacock Pools:
1. Nervous Breakdown
2. Nikki Go Sudden
3. Blazing Eye
4. You Still Around
5. Shake The Dust
6. Swollen Maps
7. Lights Of The City
8. Miss Sundown
9. Lady Inverted Cross
10 . Muscles
11. All This Death Is Killing Me
12. The Walk - Song For Amy
Pre-order Peacock Pools.
In a statement about the new single's George Mays-directed video, McBean said:
Lincoln Heights hilltop sunrise riff'n'bang sparks spree of vengeance by disgruntled ex-bass player turned cyborg tinkertronic handsome man, Ken The Walnut.
Obsessed with Pink Mountaintops demise The Walnut's sinister plot almost succeeds in a Don McClean sized wave of rock'n'roll destruction.
Thankfully, Emily Rose's Phantom of The Park summoned superpowers save the band group combo and with some collective post-dress rehearsal concert magic the former low frequency fiend is defeated. Let the rock prevail!
Peacock Pools is described as being inspired by "the sci-fi body horror of David Cronenberg, Disney Read-Along Records from the 1970s, early Pink Floyd and mid-career Gary Numan, John Carpenter movies, Ornette Coleman live videos, and a 1991 essay on the cult of bodybuilding by postmodern feminist Camille Paglia." That's a whole mess of ideas, but leave it to Pink Mountaintops to somehow make it all work.
About the creation of the record, McBean said, "I'd moved into this cool little '50s rancher house outside L.A. and was just mucking about in my bedroom studio, and pretty soon I started reaching out to some friends who were also shacked up and craving broadband sonic collaboration."
Peacock Pools features contributions from drummer/pianist Joshua Wells (Destroyer, Black Mountain), violinist/vocalist Laena Myers-Ionita (Feels, Death Valley Girls), drummer Ryan Jewell (Riley Walker, Steve Gunn), vocalist Emily Rose Epstein (Ty Segall, Emily Rose & the Rounders), and keyboardist Jeremy Schmidt (Black Mountain, Sinoia Caves).
Check out the video for "Lights of the City" and the Peacock Pools tracklist below.
Peacock Pools:
1. Nervous Breakdown
2. Nikki Go Sudden
3. Blazing Eye
4. You Still Around
5. Shake The Dust
6. Swollen Maps
7. Lights Of The City
8. Miss Sundown
9. Lady Inverted Cross
10 . Muscles
11. All This Death Is Killing Me
12. The Walk - Song For Amy
Pre-order Peacock Pools.