Axis of Evol

Pink Mountaintops is Stephen McBean [and also many of his friends when the full band play live]. McBean has been in numerous groups over the last two decades, with influences from hardcore, straight out punk, crusty punk / metal and most recently, a psych-tinged maximal rock group whose self-titled debut record, 'Black Mountain', captured a great amount of critical acclaim - and meteorically became the legendary indie label Jagjaguwar's best-selling title.

With 'Axis of Evol', Pink Mountaintops' remarkably addictive second full-length record, McBean has once again created something greater than the sum of his influences. 'Axis of Evol' begins with a foreboding spiritual which includes the tone-setting lyrical phrase "I have been wrestling a dead angry deer, and she is still with me after all of these years”.

The record then almost immediately ramps up into a thumping, buzzing, blissful haze, at various parts sounding like the Velvet Underground or Spacemen 3 or the Jesus and Mary Chain circa 'Psycho Candy'. And at the end, the album then segues into a hypnotic, Smog-like meditation called "How We Can Get Free”. Throughout, McBean sings about love and war, the love of war, and the war of love on the body, on the mind and on the soul.

Home-recorded and largely self-produced, 'Axis of Evol' is a further testament to the vital prolificacy of Stephen McBean. His mind, body and soul have once again created something that can't be simply measured, coded or decoded.