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Pink Mountaintops

Get Back

Fourth album from Canadian indie rock veteran Stephen McBean who is also part of the Vancouver collective Black Mountain

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6.8

Label
Jagjaguwar
UK Release date
28/04/2014
US Release date
29/04/2014
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  1. 8.0 |   All Music

    Four records in, Pink Mountaintops sound less like a ballast-blasted side project and more like a streamlined, fully functioning beast
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  2. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    Get Back is a really great record, and one that goes some way to cementing McBean’s name amongst the legendary lifers that he’s trying (successfully) to emulate
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  3. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    It’s one thing to ape your idols. It’s another entirely be able to position yourself firmly in their presence
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  4. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Black Mountain man delivers masterpiece. Print edition only

  5. 8.0 |   God Is In The TV

    Superbly subversive stuff
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  6. 7.8 |   Paste Magazine

    McBean never fits comfortably in the past just like his music doesn’t make total sense today, but for the most part, the good crushes the awkward
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  7. 7.0 |   Beardfood

    Who knew rock 'n roll could be this versatile?
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  8. 7.0 |   No Ripcord

    Recycling the past is always contentious within music but it's nigh on impossible to produce anything original these days; it's all been done before
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  9. 6.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Stuffed with references to teenage longing, soundtracked by expansive, nostalgic chord progressions that evoke the best bits of the Eighties
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  10. 6.0 |   Earbuddy

    When it works, as on “New Teenage Mutilation”, it succeeds in creating a perfect atmosphere for a certain type of teenaged summer night filled with adventures and promises of the unexpected
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  11. 6.0 |   Q

    Mcbean's keener on examining his adolescence in the alternative '80s, alongside other rock'n'roll mythology. Print edition only

  12. 6.0 |   The Irish Times

    A miscellany of rock sounds that is neither life-changing nor era-defining, but gratifying all the same
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  13. 4.9 |   Pitchfork

    Get Back still finds McBean trying to tap into something risky and surprising, even if the results are the sometimes-egregious misstep of a mid-40s rock musician obsessed with the letdown of aging
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