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On Hypermagic Mountain, L-Bo prove they're so heavy they're unmovable—for three albums now, they've kept their attack and its materials gloriously, unbudgingly the same. As the band's rule of performing only on floors, never stages, illustrates, Lightning Bolt come to you, aiming their churning melodies gut-level and never forgetting the importance of the beat. Chippendale is a showboat, pounding out frantic syncopations in 4/4 one moment, then something like 53/16 or 197/32— a signature perhaps best described as clobberin' time. On "2 Morro Morro Land" and the epic "Dead Cowboy," Brian Gibson's bass guitar commands roughly the same timbre and range as a chain saw, burrowing down super-low, then revving up into a prismatic, chop-shop squeal. Underneath all the scuzz and spasm, though, they're a groove band, hustling a hard-edged experimentalism you don't have to work hard to enjoy.