IV by Black Mountain

IV, Black Mountain's fourth studio album, came out on Jagjaguwar on April 1, 2016, and it was a long time coming: five and a half years since their previous studio record, the longest wait between albums in their career, and their first set of new music since the 2012 soundtrack they cut for Year Zero. The Vancouver band have always worn their psychedelic rock on their sleeve, and IV leans all the way in, with droning keyboards, heavy riffs and long, spaced-out stretches built for headphones and dark rooms. "Mothers of the Sun" is the grand statement, a slow-building epic that keeps unfolding. Destroyer came next.

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