This is a good album for anyone who has an idle wonder about what a jam session between Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, and Can might sound like. After a long spell in Brian Wilson's dope tent.
Sludgey, repetitive Sabbath riffs (a good thing!) abound. The bloke in charge works at a needle exchange facility in Vancouver, and 'Black Mountain' refers to a large pile of herbally extracted recreational compounds. Not that you could tell from the stench emanating from the record...
Another recent album worth hearing, the collaboration between Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan, 'Ballad of Broken Seas'.
She is ex-Belle and Sebastien (no, that didn't set my pulse racing either) and he is ex-Screaming Trees most recently observed lending sinister growls to Queens of the Stone Age.
Other records whiling away my time at the moment, Eighteenth Day of May (mp3 downloads from their website), plenty of Bert Jansch, Davey Graham and John Fahey, and twenty years too late 'Your Love' by Frankie Knuckles.
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