Pink Mountaintops “Plastic Man, You’re the Devil”
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
10 days into the year, and we’ve got our first great protest song of 2006–maybe. “Plastic Man, You’re the Devil” comes courtesy of Sam McBeam’s (Black Mountain) side project Pink Mountaintops. It’s the second album from McBeam’s home-recorded side project, following the eponymous first that featured one of my all-time favorite song titles, “I (Fuck) Mountains”. Like a good side project, Axis of Evol (I swear, another month or two, and I would have come up with that title) channels elements of its more refined relative, but packs enough difference to stake its own ground. Where the first PM album’s psych-funk-VU pastiche predicted what Black Mountain would sound like, Axis goes in a different direction, with seven mostly subdued songs of pensive nu-folk—think Bonnie and Smog. “Plastic Man” proves that McBean’s us-against-them motif persists–directed at the most deserved-of-impeachment CommInChief of the past century? I’ll make it mean that, sure.
Axis of Evol drops 3/7. Read Jagjag’s amusing promo blurbage here, and dig another mp3.
Also courtesy of Jagjaguwar, “Can You Do That Dance?” (mp3), from the first one.