It's only a cliché because it's true: the greatest records are timeless. BLACK MOUNTAIN's self-titled debut is just such a record such a record. Modern classic rock with references that are as as mysterious as they are crystal clear, while sounding fresh, new and absolutely irresistible. The album was a beginning, but it also marked also an end. Started as a bedroom project by Stephen McBean's bedroom project, the songs with Josh Wells and Amber Webber on tour in empty North American clubs to what would eventually become bLACK MOUNTAIN would eventually become. "We started with the Guitar and drum tracks," McBean recalls, "and we came up with the we came up with the band name when we were trying to figure out the The intersection of BLACK FLAG and BLACK SABBATH imagined. Josh's roommate Jeremy [Schmidt, keyboard] was hanging out so we asked him if he wanted to contribute some beeps and clicks and clicks. He came up with such mature keyboard Arrangements that we couldn't help but include him in the band into the band." The album was recorded at The Hive and at the Vancouver rehearsal room. There the tracks found their form: witty and lively; hypnotic and gracefully heavy; the gritty, powerful blues and all pulsing through Sludge. The album enjoyed its first successes and carried the band out onto the streets: "It was a good time for rock'n'roll. The People were into 20-minute jams and there were bands like COMETS ON FIRE and ONEIDA that we felt connected to with. I was into FAUST and AMON DUUL and had no idea that there were That there were also bands coming up that played this music playing this music. We met this band and that was cool. And then we went we went on tour with COLDPLAY and the adventures continued". Their time with one of the biggest bands in the universe is a another story; the beginning of the next chapter in the life of BLACK MOUNTAIN and everything that followed. For now, the the compact, airy brilliance of this cosmic, heavy and subtle Subtle debut album is available, which in this incarnation is enriched with delicate Bonus tracks from the Black Mountain Army archives.