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8.5
85516
8.5 |
Spectrum Culture
IV is a massive Western of a record, one that feels capable of anything
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8.0
85155
8.0 |
Uncut
A collision of gruff psychedelia, trippy space-folk and pulsing electronica. Print edition only
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8.0
85254
8.0 |
NOW
It's the album's exciting last third that hints at new directions to come for the 12-year-old outfit
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8.0
85321
8.0 |
All Music
At their best, Black Mountain approach '70s rock with a 21st century mindset, and that's the sort of sound and feel that make IV so effective
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8.0
85111
8.0 |
The Skinny
IV isn't Black Mountain's most ferocious album, but you might well find it their most profound
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8.0
85157
8.0 |
Mojo
Wilder and weirder than ever. Print edition only
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8.0
85183
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Black Mountain have become more capable than ever of transmuting their kaleidoscopic visions into a volcanic unison
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8.0
85465
8.0 |
PopMatters
Black Mountain blends the best of its heavy and progressive tendencies on a record that proves that space can also be sexy
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7.5
85222
7.5 |
Pitchfork
Rolls everything up the band has ever done—the heavy riffs, the prog ambitions, and the pop smarts—into an alternate-universe version of classic-rock history
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7.5
85136
7.5 |
Consequence Of Sound
Call any of the weirder moments growing pains as the band gets comfortable in their new, infinitely more astral body
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7.0
85110
7.0 |
The Music
A somewhat uncertain mixture of absolute crackers combined with tracks that peter out and seem like unfinished ideas
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7.0
85235
7.0 |
Under The Radar
IV is a compelling rocker—and among the best of the larger Black Mountain Army collective's releases
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7.0
85542
7.0 |
No Ripcord
It frames a window into a vast, otherworldly landscape without ever forgetting that its makers are as grounded as they come
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6.5
86206
6.5 |
Earbuddy
Once you know what’s coming, IV just kind of falls apart
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6.0
85478
6.0 |
Beardfood
Their most experimental outing to date, riffs are overrun by synths
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6.0
85601
6.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Inevitably, their writing here lacks the epic imagery and themes that cemented the rock gods into the canon, and thus doesn’t bewitch in the same wa
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6.0
86183
6.0 |
musicOMH
Striking, yes, but not ultimately making complete sense
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6.0
85336
6.0 |
The Guardian
It all probably sounds immense and all-engulfing live, but it feels a little anticlimactic at home
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6.0
85156
6.0 |
Q
They go from Black Sabbath riffs to Led Zeppelin drums, but via some single-note plonk. Print edition only
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5.0
85109
5.0 |
God Is In The TV
IV does have its moments, and when they do come, they’re often euphoric, sonically ambitious and, perhaps most importantly, linger in the memory
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