Black Mountain

Black Mountain, Dead Meadow, Wolf Parade at London King's Cross Scala, Wed 23 Nov

Review by Mike Diver

Low-end rhythms writhe, weave and snake about drumbeats that, while hardly perfunctory, never really stretch the imagination, whilst Simon’s guitar is both caressed and sent careening into supersonic excess. The whole experience is admirable enough on a superficial level, but open your ears a little wider and you see the music upon the inside of your eyelids...»