Rose Mountain

Screaming Females - Rose Mountain
Critic Score
Based on 15 reviews
2015 Ratings: #525 / 1021
User Score
Based on 74 ratings
2015 Rank: #331
Liked by 5 people
February 24, 2015 / Release Date
LP / Format
Don Giovanni / Label
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CRITIC REVIEWS

83
A.V. Club
It’s a clear continuation of the same blistering-yet-mannered rock onslaught, but the music feels like a progression—the sound of Screaming Females moving forward by looking back.
80
AllMusic

Rose Mountain sounds more like a rock album than what the group has delivered before, and in this context, that's a compliment; this is the sort of music that gives the phrase "power trio" a good name.

80
NME
The abrasion and urgency of their sound remains, but magnified, as they explore new territory.
80
SPIN
Screaming Females have not only cleared hurdles; now they're scaling mountains.
80
The Skinny

Rose Mountain is their sixth album, and it totally fucking slays.

80
Exclaim!

Rose Mountain could be the album that finally brings these hardworking punkers to a wider audience after nearly a decade of existence, and it would be well deserved.

75
Paste

Rose Mountain is less adventurous than 2012’s sprawling Ugly, but it excels in its compactness.

75
Consequence of Sound
This is the record where the Females escape the punk shadow that’s long threatened to typecast them.
70
Under the Radar
It's the perfect climax to an album that threatens Sleater-Kinney's claim to 2015's indie-punk throne.
67
Pitchfork
It's hard to fault them for going clean, but it's easy to miss the happy accidents they stumbled upon when they weren't so worried about keeping within the lines.
60
Rolling Stone
The album runs like a souped-up, punked-out station wagon, high on the fumes of nostalgia.
60
NOW Magazine
Paternoster's vocals never back off. That's where the power, hooks and originality come from, but they're a little relentless.
pancaake
99

Some very beautiful emotional tracks , this album is a tearjerker for real , i really appreciate it.

cooltimreviews
98

One of the most satisfying indie alt rock experiences I’ve had. Front to back this is an adventure, Criminal Image is great.

MasterCrackfox
74

Screaming Females, arguably for the first time in their careers, take a shift in their sound on Rose Mountain. On their sixth release as a trio, the group go for a more clean and harmonic set of songs as compared to their usual raucous style of indie punk. It doesn't necessarily fall into the pop realm, continuing to employ a good deal of distortion and power, only in a more direct manner then perhaps ever before. The songs on Rose Mountain, for once, seem to exist as their own entity rather ... read more

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Track List

1Empty Head
3:58
2Ripe
3:10
3Wishing Well
3:25
4Burning Car
3:17
5Broken Neck
3:11
6Rose Mountain
3:52
7Hopeless
2:43
8Triumph
4:48
9It's Not Fair
1:22
10Criminal Image
5:18
Total Length: 35 minutes

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Added on: November 12, 2014