{"id":15230,"date":"2021-04-24T05:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T05:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=15230"},"modified":"2021-04-17T21:34:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T21:34:21","slug":"heavy-feather-mountain-of-sugar-the-sign-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=15230","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Feather \u2013 \u2018Mountain of Sugar\u2019 (The Sign Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I\u2019ve been away for a while; does being a part of the \u201cClassic Rock Revival\u201d still consist of thinking you\u2019ve made it because you\u2019ve waxed your newly-grown moustache, purchased everything from the Joe Browns catalogue, and bought yourself onto a magazine\u2019s cover-mounted disc? No? Maybe? To be honest, I don\u2019t think the argument is really relevant in regards to this album review because, thankfully, authenticity, like natural talent, has a tendency to rise up and out of the quality control quagmire.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Mountain of Sugar\u2019 is the second studio album from Swedish throwbacks, Heavy Feather, and it is a bit of a stormer. Recorded in Stockholm with producer Erik \u201cErrka\u201d Petersson at the controls (as was the case with the band\u2019s debut album, 2019\u2019s \u2018Debris & Rubble\u2019), with help from master masterer, Magnus Lindberg (Imperial State Electric, Lucifer), and Pink Floyd\u2019s former mixer table, this eleven-track long player is a relatively faultless exercise in retro rock that throws out audio love letters to the roots rock scene of the Sixties and Seventies, hitting pretty much every mark.<\/p>\n

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Free, Cream, and Lynyrd Skynyrd are major influences that feature on the band\u2019s press information and, yes, you\u2019ll find that not just the sounds but also the spirit of those legendary outfits haunt proceedings here, but \u2018Mountains of Sugar\u2019 never falls into soundalike territory: there is a warm familiarity to every track on this great album more akin to meeting up with an old friend \u2013 something I\u2019m sure we\u2019re all desperate to do in these strange days.<\/p>\n

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Yes, this is record listening of a certain vintage; the dragging on of headphones, the pouring of a favourite beverage, and the losing of oneself in the grooves. Pulling the listener into the songs is, without question, the voice of Lisa Lystam. Hers is one of the most effortlessly wonderful rock voices that I have been lucky enough to hear in some time. Raw at times, siren song at others, this bluesy gift from the Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll Gods is more than an impressive set of pipes \u2013 this is an art instillation.<\/p>\n

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Songs like opener, \u201930 Days\u2019, \u2018Too Many Times\u2019, and \u2018Come We Can Go\u2019 will make any earthy rock playlist with ease, while \u2018Love Will Come Easy\u2019, given half a chance, could be a breakout hit that catapults Heavy Feather up a division or two. Think about the cult status and love afforded prime Vintage Trouble and you\u2019ll have an idea as to where this Swedish gem should find itself when this second album\u2019s cycle has come to its natural conclusion.<\/p>\n

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A dark horse for many a Best Albums list come the end of the year, for sure.\u00a0\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0\/<\/span>\u00a0Instagram<\/a><\/span>\u00a0\/ Bandcamp<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Author: Gaz Tidey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been away for a while; does being a part of the \u201cClassic Rock Revival\u201d still consist of thinking you\u2019ve made it because you\u2019ve waxed your newly-grown moustache, purchased everything from the Joe Browns catalogue, and bought yourself onto a magazine\u2019s cover-mounted disc? No? Maybe? To be honest, I don\u2019t think the argument is really […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[2113,6620,6621,1456],"class_list":["post-15230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-gaz-tidey","tag-heavy-feather","tag-mountains-of-sugar","tag-the-sign-records","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15233,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15230\/revisions\/15233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}