So we asked Stephen McBean to help us out with the description of this 7-inch slice of vinyl heaven he created. We got the following key phrases out of him: “European car ads” and “4 am dancing shoes”. The first song called “Single Life” is yet another in a long line of great fuzzed out Velvet-styled gems by Pink Mountaintops, sped up ever so slightly to be in synch with the minds of akathisiacs everywhere. And the reverse side, “My Best Friend”, is the more affecting and spiritual of the two, perhaps McBean’s most beautifully crafted song to date.Pink Mountaintops is Stephen McBean (and also many of his friends when the full band is assembled to play live). McBean has been in numerous groups over the last two decades. As a thirteen-year old, he played in a band called Jerk Ward, playing hardcore influenced by the Neos, Discharge, Crucifix and whoever else was fast or the fastest. His other bands to date have been a straight out punk outfit, a crusty punk/metal band, and, most recently, a psych-tinged maximal rock group whose self-titled debut record, Black Mountain, captured a great amount of critical acclaim (and meteorically became Jagjaguwar’s best-selling title.) The music of Pink Mountaintops can be saucy, sexy, rowdy, mind-blowing, minimal, orchestrated, stripped down, elaborate, or spiritual, or any combination of these things, though not usually elaborate and minimal at the same time… you get the idea…