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Black Mountain - In The Future

After the surprise success of Black Mountain's self-titled debut and their equally surprising tour with Coldplay, the media focused attention solely on band founder and riff-o-matic guitar god Stephen McBean. With IN THE FUTURE, their seismic follow-up, the Vancouver quintet casts aside McBean's lone genius act with an emphatic statement: Black Mountain is a band. Singer Amber Webber's haunting vibrato is as much a presence on IN THE FUTURE as McBean's anguished husk, and dominates on the beauti

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After the surprise success of Black Mountain's self-titled debut & their equally surprising tour with Coldplay, the media focused attention solely on band founder & riff-o-matic guitar god Stephen Mc Bean. With IN THE FUTURE, their seismic follow-up, the Vancouver quintet casts aside Mc Bean's lone genius act with an emphatic statement: Black Mountain is a b&. Singer Amber Webber's haunting vibrato is as much a presence on IN THE FUTURE as Mc Bean's anguished husk, & dominates on the beauti

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