Pink Mountaintops – Axis of Evol
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The core of Pink Mountaintops is Stephen McBean. He has quite a history with heavy music (punk, goth, metal), and it bleeds through on Axis of Evol. Think of what you’d want to listen to if you were wrestling a crocodile or riding a Harley at night in the middle of nowhere. It’s like that. It gets you pretty damn pumped. |
Grade: A- | Genre: Indie Rock
Axis of Evol starts with the song “Coma,” which doesn’t sound like the rest of the album but fits in well. It’s a quiet song, made up of just an acoustic guitar and McBean’s voice. The first line on the album is “I know I’m not headed down a highway to hell.” Two minutes later, “Cold Criminals” comes chugging along and you feel like you’re headed down a highway to hell on a freight train. This music sounds big. Think “big” like “huge.” No matter how quiet you turn it down, you feel like your neighbors can hear it. Jagjaguwar seems to have a thing for this sound. So once that beast of a song is over with, “New Drug Queens” blindsides you. “Tell your mom you’re gonna stay out late tonight.” Ok. This is the one you’ll be listening to in your car way too loud to be paying attention to the road. You’ll drive too fast and sing too loud, but you won’t care because you told your mom you’re gonna stay out late tonight.
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