It's been a long time since I've been this impressed with a band I had never heard of before. Perhaps better known for his work in Black Mountain (also great), Vancouver's Stephen McBean is the principal songwriter in the Pink Mountaintops. Outside Love is the band's third album and easily their best. The album displays a mix of pop, folk, and rock influences - think Mark Lanegan, Low, M. Ward, the Vaselines - while still retaining a sound that is both chilling and exhilarating and undoubtedly original.
As the band's label Jagjaguwar writes, "The ten songs on "Outside Love" are about or influenced by weddings in Montreal, winter, Pink Floyd's The Final Cut, Christmas albums, that one Exile song and that one Echo and the Bunnymen song, the Bermuda Triangle, being depressed in the sunshine, people who haven't made out yet but will in the future, The Everly Brothers, clowns in the ceilings, and bedrooms where skinheads used to live."
Is "Vampire" the best song of a 2009 packed with great albums that are filled with great songs? Perhaps - or maybe I just have a soft spot for demon love songs.
Pink Mountaintops - Vampire
Pink Mountaintops - While You Were Dreaming
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