Pink Mountaintops — Outside Love

Outside Love

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Ian Gormely (CHARTattack)

05/08/2009 1:59pm

After the intensity of Black Mountain's last album and the subsequent shows the band performed in support of it, it's easy to see how Outside Love came to fruition.

Stephen McBean's stoner-country anthems feel like campfire jams. The vibe is carried further by McBean's lyrics on "Holiday" ("Everyone I love deserves a holiday in the sun") and "And I Thank You" ("I'm in love with all the others").

Like most of McBean's projects, he invited a litany of friends to help out, including members of Black Mountain, Jesse Sykes and Immaculate Machiner and New Pornagrapher Kathryn Calder. Their presence is most felt on rousing singalongs on "The Gayest Of Sunbeams" and "Execution."

The latter tune is hands-down the catchiest thing McBean has written, and Outside Love may be the best thing he's done.

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