Snap Judgement- Heartless Bastards’ ‘The Mountain’
If good looks was a minute/ You know that you could've been an hour- Smokey Robinson, 'The Way You Do The Things You Do'
We want to remind you of the Delta in all of our minds.
MBV streams the Heartless Bastards’ new album The Mountain, which dropped yesterday. The title track comes out ripping! Me like! This is how you open an album. Other bands take notes. ‘Be So Happy’ enters with a heavy acoustic strum. There is just enough bite to the sound that you can’t take it for granted. With ‘Early In The Morning’, wow, we’re back rocking again. Get in, get out, f*ck off. This is my kind of music. ‘Hold Your Head High’ could be a Faces song. It is that good. Sure, you can call this classic rock redux, but with this level of commitment, who cares? Drums and guitar right up front in the mix. So far, this album is quite a meal. Love the drum intro to ‘Nothing Seems The Same’ which leads right into the melody. Yes, it’s boogie rock, but you know what, who cares? I want to dance! ‘Wide Awake’ is the best PJ Harvey song she never released. Album slows its momentum toward the end, but I wouldn’t say it drags. The fiddles in ‘Had To Go’ do some spookin’ at the end. I listened to a few tracks from this album last month and wasn’t much moved. In the context of the whole album, you can consider this a reconsideration. Buy this album. 
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