Black Mountain share a new standalone single, “What’s Your Conquest?” Although separate from their new album, Destroyer, released earlier this year via Jagjaguwar, “What’s Your Conquest?” is in-step with the same vivacious energy, and features lively guitar and surging synth. “Easton / Hawkes flippin’ east London eggs on some Cold War blocks. Un, Deux, Trois – another pop explosion!” says Stephen McBean.
Praise for Destroyer:
“the metal outfit prove there’s plenty of life left in their road-trip rock.” – Pitchfork
“[Destroyer[ builds the band’s best parts — resin-stained riffs, pop sensibilities, and space-prog ambitions — into a turbocharged, efficient package that pulls ahead of their stoner rock rep.” – Sharp
“ a heavy, crunchy, head-banging good time with eight tracks to throw the sign of the horns to.” – Paste
“Black Mountain have always been great at doing all the things that bongwater-gargling riff-monsters should be good at doing. They have titanic canyon-spanning hooks. They’ve got enough dynamic range to switch their style up a few times within the space of a single song…On Destroyer, all of that is in very clear evidence. It’s enough to fill up your soul.”
– Stereogum
“[Destroyer] goes from tracks like Pretty Little Lazies and Boogie Lover that’ll send you through meandering back roads, to high-octane anthems like Licensed To Drive that’ll make you reach for the gear change – best left for the highways.” – Guitar
