Hypermagic Mountain

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Hypermagic Mountain
Hypermagic Mountain cover
Studio album by Lightning Bolt
Released October 18, 2005
Recorded Providence, Rhode Island
Genre Noise rock
Length 56:44
Label Load Records – LOAD #78
Producer Dave Auchenbach
Professional reviews
Lightning Bolt chronology
Wonderful Rainbow
(2003)		 Hypermagic Mountain
(2005)

Hypermagic Mountain is the fourth album by the noise rock band Lightning Bolt. It has a very dense sound composed entirely of distorted bass guitar and loud, pounding drums. The band and their sound engineer, Dave Auchenbach, recorded the album in a house in Providence, Rhode Island directly onto a 2 track DAT master tape.[1]

Contents

[edit] Critical reception

Critical response to Hypermagic Mountain was generally favorable, with an average of 88% based on 23 reviews on Metacritic.[2] The same site rates the album as #37 on the all-time highest rated albums,[3] and as the fourth best album of 2005.[4] Stylus Magazine's Rogue Strew hailed the album as "another stride toward the perfection of [Lightning Bolt's] prog-noise esthetic[sic] ",[5] while Prefix Magazine's Aaron Richter called it Lightning Bolt's "most accomplished effort to date, one-upping 2003’s Wonderful Rainbow with a fresh sense of maturity."[6] Pitchfork Media's Brian Stosuy similarly described Hypermagic Mountain as the band's "most well-oiled album", but criticized that "somewhere in the middle a lack of variety creates a dull patch."[7]

[edit] Track listing

  1. "2 Morro Morro Land" – 3:43
  2. "Captain Caveman" – 3:19
  3. "Birdy" – 3:06
  4. "Riffwraith" – 3:03
  5. "Megaghost" – 6:01
  6. "Magic Mountain" – 4:55
  7. "Dead Cowboy" – 7:58
  8. "Bizarro Zarro Land" – 4:47
  9. "Mohawkwindmill" – 9:38
  10. "Bizarro Bike" – 5:18
  11. "Infinity Farm" – 2:46
  12. "No Rest for the Obsessed" – 2:10

[edit] Album personnel

[edit] References

  1. ^ Licht, Alan. "Lightning Bolt" (#262, December 2005). The Wire. 
  2. ^ Hypermagic Mountain – Lightning Bolt. Metacritic. Retrieved on 2008-01-14.
  3. ^ All-Time High and Low Scores. Metacritic. Retrieved on 2008-01-14.
  4. ^ Best Albums of 2005. Metacritic. Retrieved on 2008-01-14.
  5. ^ Strew, Rogue. Hypermagic Mountain – Lightning Bolt. Stylus Magazine. Retrieved on 2008-01-14.
  6. ^ Richter, Aaron. Hypermagic Mountain – Lightning Bolt. Prefix Magazine. Retrieved on 2008-01-14.
  7. ^ Stosuy, Brian. Hypermagic Mountain – Lightning Bolt. Pitchfork Media. Retrieved on 2008-01-14.

[edit] External links

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