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9.0
16079
9.0 |
No Ripcord
With Black Mountain the Sabbath-inspired edge gleams so brightly it’s blinding
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8.0
16107
8.0 |
Mojo
An inspiring, triumphant album. Print edition only
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8.0
16271
8.0 |
Eye Weekly
Black Mountain can still rock a dirge better than any band going
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8.0
16348
8.0 |
The Fly
Hopefully, success as big as their riffs will duly follow
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8.0
16369
8.0 |
Q
A triumph. Print edition only
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8.0
16402
8.0 |
music OMH
Hints of darkness, together with an ability to take on several differing styles of music in the course of one album, that make Black Mountain such a compelling listen
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8.0
16469
8.0 |
Rave Magazine
Wilderness Heart reanimates the ghosts of hard rock without needing to shell out $60 for a ‘vintage’ Sabbath t-shirt
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8.0
16508
8.0 |
BBC
There's ecstatic guitar screeching, pounding drums and a lot of shade within the light
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8.0
16606
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Wilderness Heart begins to feel more like a result of time travel than a painstakingly manufactured clone of the band’s favourite records
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7.5
16790
7.5 |
Prefix
You've got to hand it to Black Mountain for following their expansive sophomore album with perhaps the more daring precise one without losing their considerable strengths in the dea
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7.5
18400
7.5 |
One Thirty BPM
An album that dwells on the refinement of their craft at this stage of their growth
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7.4
16231
7.4 |
Pitchfork
All signs point to Wilderness Heart's being Black Mountain's go-for-broke commercial bid
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7.0
16420
7.0 |
NME
There’s plenty to chew on herein, and subsequently zone out
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7.0
16482
7.0 |
Bowlegs
Influences are worn clearly on their sleeve, no more so than on Black Sabbath sound-alike anthem ‘Let Spirits Ride’
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7.0
16485
7.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
Stoner rock’s a nerdy, outcast genre, and marginalization ensures that Black Mountain can keep recording the realest shit their rock-god progenitors never wrote
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7.0
16602
7.0 |
The Quietus
There's a feeling of Black Mountain testing new waters as they discreetly re-group and consolidate what it is that makes them such a satisfyingly fearsome proposition
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7.0
18096
7.0 |
Blurt
What's interesting about Wilderness Heart is the way it melds he-man classic rock with the rich country self-assured-ness of the band's distaff side
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6.0
16078
6.0 |
The Skinny
Coming on the swirling vortex coattails of In The Future, Wilderness Heart may initially pale by comparison, but it can’t detract from solid work that should bring a few more followers to the cause
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6.0
16109
6.0 |
Uncut
Print edition only
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5.0
16222
5.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Wilderness Heart remains, ultimately, a collection of ten tracks of roughly equal length, each taking roughly one classic idea and pickling it in production gloss and traditionalist technique
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5.0
16597
5.0 |
Pop Matters
The band’s willingness to shake up their own sound so early in their development is admirable, but the decision to move the sound to a more generic direction is a major drag
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