Hypermagic Mountain

Infobox Album |
Name = Hypermagic Mountain
Type = Album
Artist = Lightning Bolt


Released = October 18, 2005
Recorded = Providence, Rhode Island
Genre = Noise rock
Length = 56:44
Label = Load Records – LOAD #78
Producer = Dave Auchenbach
Reviews =
*Allmusic rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jjfoxq8sld0e~T1 link]
*BBC Collective rating|3.5|5 [http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A6644388 link]
*Pitchfork (7.3/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/19399-hypermagic-mountain link]
*Stylus Magazine (A-) [http://www.stylusmagazine.com/review.php?ID=3486 link]
*Tiny Mix Tapes rating|5|5 [http://www.tinymixtapes.com/musicreviews/l/lightning_bolt.htm link]
*The Stranger rating|4|4 [http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=23541 link]
Last album = "Wonderful Rainbow"
(2003)
This album = "Hypermagic Mountain"
(2005)
Next album =

"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.cite journal
url = http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/4/print
publisher = "The Wire"
issue = #262, December 2005
accessdate = 2008-01-23
title = Lightning Bolt
last = Licht
first = Alan]

Critical reception

Critical response to "Hypermagic Mountain" was generally favorable, with an average of 88% based on 23 reviews on Metacritic. [cite web
url = http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/lightningbolt/hypermagicmountain?q=hypermagic%20mountain
publisher = "Metacritic"
title = Hypermagic Mountain – Lightning Bolt
accessdate = 2008-01-14] The same site rates the album as #37 on the all-time highest rated albums, [cite web
url = http://www.metacritic.com/music/bests/
publisher = "Metacritic"
title = All-Time High and Low Scores
accessdate = 2008-01-14] and as the fourth best album of 2005. [cite web
url = http://www.metacritic.com/music/bests/2005.shtml
publisher = "Metacritic"
title = Best Albums of 2005
accessdate = 2008-01-14] "Stylus Magazine"'s Rogue Strew hailed the album as "another stride toward the perfection of [Lightning Bolt's] prog-noise estheticsic", [cite web
url = http://www.stylusmagazine.com/review.php?ID=3486
first = Rogue
last = Strew
publisher = "Stylus Magazine"
title = Hypermagic Mountain – Lightning Bolt
accessdate = 2008-01-14] 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." [cite web
url = http://www.prefixmag.com/reviews/lightning-bolt/hypermagic-mountain/14635/
first = Aaron
last = Richter
publisher = "Prefix Magazine"
title = Hypermagic Mountain – Lightning Bolt
accessdate = 2008-01-14] "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." [cite web
url = http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/19399-hypermagic-mountain?artist_title=19399-hypermagic-mountain
first = Brian
last = Stosuy
publisher = "Pitchfork Media"
title = Hypermagic Mountain – Lightning Bolt
accessdate = 2008-01-14]

Track listing

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

Album personnel

*Brian Chippendale – drums and vocals
*Brian Gibson – bass guitar
*Dave Auchenbach – recording engineer

References

External links

* [http://laserbeast.com/ Lightning Bolt official website]
* [http://www.loadrecords.com/bands/bolt.html Lightning Bolt at Load Records]