{"id":1136,"date":"2014-03-28T09:37:38","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T13:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2014-04-03T09:55:08","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T13:55:08","slug":"mount-carmel-get-pure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/mount-carmel-get-pure\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Carmel <br>Get Pure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/mount_carmel_get_pure.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1137\" alt=\"Mount Carmel, Get Pure\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/mount_carmel_get_pure.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/mount_carmel_get_pure.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/mount_carmel_get_pure-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Does the future of music lie in the past? What\u2019s the line between inspiration and imitation? Can you be simultaneously impressed and unimpressed? <i>Get Pure<\/i> (Alive Naturalsound Records), the third release by Mount Carmel, who hail from The Agit Reader\u2019s Midwest home of Columbus, Ohio, raises a lot of questions. It\u2019s ironic because in concept and practice the power trio comprised of brothers Pat (bass) and Matt (guitar) Reed, with James Mccain (drums) couldn\u2019t be more straightforward. The band lives for big riffs, big drums, and dirty bass.<\/p>\n<p><i>Get Pure<\/i> exists in a land where the past 35 years just didn\u2019t happen. It\u2019s a place where James Gang records are traded back and forth like sacred totems; Cream trivia is shared like celebrity gossip; the Allman Brothers\u2019 <i>Live at Fillmore East<\/i> is the biggest selling album of all time; and no one yells, \u201cPlay \u2018Freebird!\u2019\u201d ironically. It\u2019s the type of record where if you said it was a lost reissue from the \u201870s, no one would bat an eye. It\u2019s not as jammy as some of the band&#8217;s presumed influences\u2014most songs barely break the three-minute mark, and the longest song is a hair under five\u2014but there is maximum riffage. It\u2019s not overdone or oppressive, but the guitars are front and center. And like the great power trios of the past, the band put the power as the foundation. With Matt as the iron-lunged center of the storm, it\u2019s a no frills record without being sparse.<\/p>\n<p>But the question is raised, while performed and recorded well, does <i>Get Pure<\/i> get over because it neatly ticks so many boxes on the nostalgia chart? Is part of the thrill that it\u2019s such a sonic archetype or does it succeed purely on its own merits? It would be one thing if the songs were simply virtual remakes, but they\u2019re not. The songs work within the vocabulary of their influences, but aren\u2019t simply loosely recast. That\u2019s kind of the problem and kind of not: there\u2019s no twist or one thing that makes this record uniquely Mount Carmel\u2019s or drags it into the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p>Such hair-splitting is because <i>Get Pure<\/i> is full of moments that clearly will slay live, even in they don\u2019t hang together nicely on the record. And again, this is nothing that you haven\u2019t heard something like before if you\u2019re a classic rock fan. Still, no one slags AC\/DC for essentially making the same record since forever, so it would seem odd to ding Mount Carmel for accomplishing what they wanted to do at a fairly impressive level. So what\u2019s the verdict? <i>Get Pure<\/i> is a solid record if you don\u2019t think about it too much, but even then there\u2019s plenty to enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does the future of music lie in the past? 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