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After receiving much acclaim in 2005 for their self-titled debut (also Jagjaguar’s best-selling record to date), Stephen McBean has gone and released even more of those delectable lo-fi hypnotic guitar grooves for his solo project the Pink Mountaintops. The music on Axis of Evol is less, well, hysterical than Black Mountain, but that’s not to say it lacks the visceral musical challenge fans of McBean’s music have come to expect. Featuring subdued drumbeats (‘Lord, Let Us Shine’), psychedelic folk rock (‘Plastic Man, You’re the Devil’), and acoustic spiritual smoke outs (‘Comas), the ever-present dramatic themes of love and war that seem to be the main vein of McBean’s consciousness remain the same. Whatever the color of the mountain, it’s becoming clear this guy has enough strange musical material to wrap around the whole mountain range.
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