Heartless Bastards - The Mountain reviews
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| Ew |
 The third album from this inaccurately named Austin trio opens with its title track, an epic slab of country-grunge that beautifully showcases the soulful, weathered vocals of frontwoman Erika Wennerstrom. And there are plenty of other peaks as well, such as the lilting folk number ''So Quiet'' and the defiant ''Hold Your Head High,'' on which Wennerstrom sings about how friends can help get you through the bad times. The Mountain is the kind of album that just might be able to perform a similar service. B+...full text |
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| Pastemagazine |
| Erika Wennerstrom's enormous voice typically dominates discussion of this Ohio trio, and for good reason. Hers is a mighty blues holler, projecting self-conflict not just to the rafters, but to the rafters in other states. As distinctive as Wennerstrom sounds, however, her confident guitar work and the tight rhythm section of Mike Lamping and Kevin Vaughn do just as much to color these songs. On their third album, the Bastards stray further and further from the monolithic blues-rock of their 2005 debut while sharpening the soft focus of 2006's All This Time. The guitar-heavy title track certainly lives up to its name, sloping steeply to a psychedelic peak. "Nothing Seems the Same" and closing track "Sway" jam more sparsely, but The Mountain sounds best when the Bastards explore unlikelier textures, like the sinister acoustic jangle of "Be So Happy" or the banjo-spiked ramble of "Had To Go." This album isn't merely a single peak, but a whole mountain range....full text |
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| Pastemagazin |
In spite of its titular stability, if the Heartless Bastards’ new album, The Mountain, has any single motif, it’s relocation. Where their two previous releases reflect the industrial harshness of their Midwest base, the rootsy ethos of the band’s new geographic locus—Austin, Texas—are a fresh presence on this album. Lead Bastard Erika Wennerstrom has gone “over the hill . . . through concrete and steel”, she explains on “Be So Happy”.
These are changes in geography, but there’s been a shift in personnel as well. At this point, it seems that Wennerstrom is the only stable member of the Heartless Bastards, although the addition of this rhythm section—Dave Colvin on drums and Jesse Ebaugh on bass—actually reunites the trio that recorded the Heartless Bastards’ original demo. All this turbulence, however, is pushing the band across unmarked territory, and three records in, they seem to have found new feet....full text |
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