Peacock Pools cover

Peacock Pools

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Stephen McBean is Pink Mountaintops, and one-man bands are not hard to find, though he’s the only one who covered Black Flag’s “Nervous Breakdown” in 2022. Not many albums actually sort of sound- and name- check Swell Maps and U2 on the same album, which may be the most psychedelic thing I can think of. Beck hops to mind, in the catholic sprawl of interests, though the high and low end of McBean’s taste spectrum go really really far. Pretty great.

Sasha Frere-Jones

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