MOUNT CARMEL
''GET PURE''
2014
35:38
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01 - Gold 02:53
02 - Back On It 03:07
03 - Whisper 02:49
04 - No Pot To Piss 04:07
05 - Swallow Me Up 03:13
06 - Bridge To Nowhere 01:38
07 - One More Morning 03:26
08 - Will I 03:04
09 - Hangin' On 03:14
10 - Fear Me Now 04:51
11 - Yeah You Mama 03:12
All Tracks By Matthew Reed, Patrick Reed
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James McCain/Drums
Matthew Reed/Guitar, Vocals
Patrick Reed/Bass
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REVIEW/AMG
Gregory Heaney
Evoking the smoky British blues-rock of the '60s and '70s, Mount Carmel return with their third album, Get Pure. Listening to the album, it quickly becomes clear that its title is more a call to arms than anything else as they attempt to wake all the bell-bottom-wearing boogie rock enthusiasts from their stony slumbers. While many bands have dived headfirst into revivalist rock, there's something about Mount Carmel's sound that would make it seem plausible to see their name on an old poster for a Cream show. And like its title implies, Get Pure's beauty lies in its simplicity. With just guitars, bass, drums, and tons of glorious fuzz, Mount Carmel's sound is about as simple as it gets, eschewing experimentation in favor of making bona fide, by-the-book rock & roll. This isn't to say, however, that the band's sound is derivative. Rather than making you wish you were just listening to Canned Heat or Humble Pie, Get Pure will make you wonder if you haven't stumbled upon a forgotten album lost to dollar-bin obscurity decades ago. What's clear is that Mount Carmel have a great reverence for this era, and it feels as though they approach songwriting the same way a historic preservationist might approach renovating an old house, painstakingly restoring the music to its former glory so that future generations may experience the pleasures of pure, unadulterated hard rock for the first time.
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BIOGRAPHY/AMG
Jason Lymangrover
Columbus, Ohio's Mount Carmel pound out extensive, riff-heavy jams that draw substantially from the blues-based rock of Cream, Blue Cheer, and Black Sabbath. As a tight power trio with feet firmly rooted in the past, it seemed like a stretch when the bandmembers announced they would pair with a label built on the modern "shitgaze" phenomenon of slack lo-fi artists like Times New Viking and Psychedelic Horseshit. Yet Matthew Reed, Patrick Reed, and Kevin Skubak signed to Siltbreeze for the self-titled Mount Carmel album in 2010, and stayed with their hometown label for the 2012 follow-up, Real Women. The band eventually moved to label Alive Naturalsound, where they released their third album, Get Pure, in 2014.
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''GET PURE''
2014
35:38
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01 - Gold 02:53
02 - Back On It 03:07
03 - Whisper 02:49
04 - No Pot To Piss 04:07
05 - Swallow Me Up 03:13
06 - Bridge To Nowhere 01:38
07 - One More Morning 03:26
08 - Will I 03:04
09 - Hangin' On 03:14
10 - Fear Me Now 04:51
11 - Yeah You Mama 03:12
All Tracks By Matthew Reed, Patrick Reed
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James McCain/Drums
Matthew Reed/Guitar, Vocals
Patrick Reed/Bass
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REVIEW/AMG
Gregory Heaney
Evoking the smoky British blues-rock of the '60s and '70s, Mount Carmel return with their third album, Get Pure. Listening to the album, it quickly becomes clear that its title is more a call to arms than anything else as they attempt to wake all the bell-bottom-wearing boogie rock enthusiasts from their stony slumbers. While many bands have dived headfirst into revivalist rock, there's something about Mount Carmel's sound that would make it seem plausible to see their name on an old poster for a Cream show. And like its title implies, Get Pure's beauty lies in its simplicity. With just guitars, bass, drums, and tons of glorious fuzz, Mount Carmel's sound is about as simple as it gets, eschewing experimentation in favor of making bona fide, by-the-book rock & roll. This isn't to say, however, that the band's sound is derivative. Rather than making you wish you were just listening to Canned Heat or Humble Pie, Get Pure will make you wonder if you haven't stumbled upon a forgotten album lost to dollar-bin obscurity decades ago. What's clear is that Mount Carmel have a great reverence for this era, and it feels as though they approach songwriting the same way a historic preservationist might approach renovating an old house, painstakingly restoring the music to its former glory so that future generations may experience the pleasures of pure, unadulterated hard rock for the first time.
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BIOGRAPHY/AMG
Jason Lymangrover
Columbus, Ohio's Mount Carmel pound out extensive, riff-heavy jams that draw substantially from the blues-based rock of Cream, Blue Cheer, and Black Sabbath. As a tight power trio with feet firmly rooted in the past, it seemed like a stretch when the bandmembers announced they would pair with a label built on the modern "shitgaze" phenomenon of slack lo-fi artists like Times New Viking and Psychedelic Horseshit. Yet Matthew Reed, Patrick Reed, and Kevin Skubak signed to Siltbreeze for the self-titled Mount Carmel album in 2010, and stayed with their hometown label for the 2012 follow-up, Real Women. The band eventually moved to label Alive Naturalsound, where they released their third album, Get Pure, in 2014.
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