Pink Mountaintops

Running up that hill with Vancouver’s love-song mountain man. On a smoke break outside his East Vancouver practice space, Stephen McBean is waxing poetic about his latest Pink Mountaintops album, Outside Love. The album, a collection of tobacco-stained psych pop, blends the ambience of Spacemen 3 with Lou Reed-style songwriting and hints of timeless country. Its influences are more conceptual, owing a debt to Norwegian black metal forefathers Darkthrone. “When you listen to [Darkthr...

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