Stephen McBean of the psychedelic rock juggernaut Black Mountain hasn’t been active with his side project Pink Mountaintops for a while—and it took a move to L.A. to catalyze the latter group’s new album, Get Back. Aptly enough, it’s a primal, chrome-plated beast fueled by rock ’n’ roll sleaze-and-snarl. The scratchy, vivid video for the album’s most singular song “North Hollywood Microwaves”—which is being debuted here—was directed by Giant Drag’s Annie Hardy, who also raps with pornographic abandon in the song. Yes, you read that right. Raps. About, like, bear cum and stuff.
Get Back will be released April 29 via Jagjaguwar.
Pink Mountaintops tour 2014 April 30—Gas Monkey Bar & Grill—Dallas, Texas May 1—Fitzgerald’s—Houston, Texas May 2-May 4—Austin Pysch Festival—Austin, Texas May 6—Low Spirits—Albuquerque, New Mexico May 7—Club Congress—Tucson, Arizona May 8—The Western—Scottsdale, Arizona May 19—The Crepe Place—Santa Cruz, California May 23—The Fox—Vancouver, British Columbia May 25—Sasquatch Music Festival—George, Washington May 26—Bunk Bar—Portland, Oregon May 28—The Chapel—San Francisco, California May 29—Casbah—San Diego, California May 30—The Echo—Los Angeles, California
