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Pink Mountaintops Outside Love album Set for May 5 Release

PINK MOUNTAINTOPS TO RELEASE ‘OUTSIDE LOVE’ ‘ON MAY 5, 2009

STEPHEN MCBEAN STRIKES GOLD WITH TEN-TRACK STUNNER

Jagjaguwar is proud to announce the upcoming release of Outside Love by Pink Mountaintops, ten songs of love and hate that read like a Danielle Steele romance novel but that would probably make for bad television.

Outside Love is the third album by Pink Mountaintops, AKA Stephen McBean, who has slowly emerged as a distinctive voice and a very special contributor to the North American songbook. A veteran of the Vancouver/Victoria punk rock scene, McBean is best known for his contributions to acclaimed rock band Black Mountain, as principal songwriter, guitarist and co-vocalist.

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.

Friends and family who contributed to or appear on Outside Love, in no particular order, include Sophie Trudeau (A Silver Mt. Zion, Godspeed You! Black Emperor), Ted Bois (Destroyer), Jesse Sykes (Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter, sunnO)))), Phil Wandscher (Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter, Whiskeytown), Josh Stevenson (Jackie O Motherfucker), Ashley Webber (The Organ, Bonnie Prince Billy), Amber Webber (Black Mountain, Lightning Dust), Matthew Camirand (Black Mountain, Blood Meridian), Joshua Wells (Black Mountain, Lightning Dust), Keith Parry (Superconductor, the Gay), and Tolan McNeil (Caroline Mark).

Recorded at multiple studios, Outside Love was mixed at Elmwood Studios by John Congleton (Modest Mouse, Black Mountain, Explosions In The Sky, The Mountain Goats).

TRACK LISTING: -

Axis: Thrones Of Love
Execution
While You Were Dreaming
Vampire
Holiday
Come Down
Outside Love
And I Thank You
The Gayest Of Sunbeams
Closer To Heaven

Selected Discography:

“The Pink Mountaintops” self-titled CD/LP (July 20, 2004)
“Axis of Evol” CD/LP (March 7, 2006)
“Outside Love” CD/LP (May 5, 2009)

Quotes From Press (about previous releases):

“In a field where bands often consolidate entire decades to achieve a generic “retro” sound, Mcbean’s geological formations hew away at something smaller and more ornately detailed. … Pink Mountaintops still aren’t your dad’s rock anachronism, because chances are they know the terrain better than the old man himself.” — Pitchfork Media

“For Stephen McBean, 2005 ended with the debut album by his brilliant ’70s rock throwbacks Black Mountain being voted Uncut’s fourth best album of the year. Now, McBean’s second album under his Pink Mountaintops pseudonym finds the prolific Canadian on a very different trip. … If Black Mountain was the party and the first Pink Mountaintops album was the sex, Axis of Evol is the comedown: disturbing, sticky, painful, but absolutely vital” — Uncut, in review giving Axis of Evol 4 stars.

“His musical horniness is sickly beautiful.” — Punk Planet