The Pink Mountaintops - Axis of Evol

Stephen McBean really loves being in music bands.

With music like this played live, he must also love concert smoke. A lot of it.

As the frontman for Black Mountain, Jerk with a Bomb and The Pink Mountaintops, McBean's popularity is quickly growing beyond his native Canadian west coast roots.

The Canadian release for Axis of Evol was 2005, however it took a little longer for the US release (Spring 2006).

This Vancouver-based group's latest effort has become a regular favorite listen of mine. The lead vocals for Cold Criminals sound like a very stoned Eddie Vedder. Kind of cool and it works.

The band's sound seems to accumulate the best of what I like from other groups such as The Strokes, Queens of the Stone Age, The Flaming Lips, Bloc Party, The Brian Jonestown Massacre and Butthole Surfers.

Yeah, I know that seems to be a pretty far reaching conclusion but have a listen for yourself and you might just agree.

The early reports on Axis of Evol are all good. You can read CokeMachineGlow's review here.

Download and listen:
New Drug Queens MP3 (Axis of Evol - 2006)
Rock n' Roll Fantasy MP3 (Pink Moutaintops - 2004)
Can You Do That Dance? MP3 (Pink Mountaintops - 2004)

Kind of strange that all the MP3 and video links appear not to work on the band's website (might be my browser) but special thanks to the band's label - Jagjaguwar - for making a few MP3s available for fans.

For more, you can stream here.

Buy Axis of Evol at Emusic.

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