Black Mountain is an anomaly in today's fast-paced world. The Vancouver band's latest psychedelic space-out, In the Future, isn't exactly as immediate as, say, Kraft Dinner, but with a little patience, it's just as easy to digest.

"We were putting it together with that (a full album experience) in mind, not trying to exclude the iPod generation by any means, though," keyboardist Jeremy Schmidt says. "We certainly adhere to the tradition of albums as a holistic listening experience."

Yes, a quick MySpace listen really doesn't do justice to Black Mountain's heady, multi-layered, and often epic sound, but that doesn't worry Schmidt, who's joined in
the band by bassist Matt Camirand, vocalist/guitarist Stephen McBean, vocalist Amber Webber and drummer Joshua Wells

"I'm sure there are still people who spend time with a record and they read the liner notes while they lie on their bed and listen with their cans on. I like to think those people are out there."

Apparently ADD, ADHD - or whatever it's being called this week - hasn't afflicted our whole society. In the Future has received rave reviews from the likes of Pitchfork, Alternative Press and The Onion. The band's last album, 2005's self-titled release, landed Black Mountain an opening slot for Coldplay that year and was named one of Amazon's "Top 100 Editor's Picks of 2005."

Not just critically acclaimed, Black Mountain has found mainstream success, too, and even recently appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Surreal as playing on TV might have been, it didn't quite top the inclusion of the band's song Stay Free on the Spider-Man 3 soundtrack.

"We didn't expect it. We didn't provide them with a Hero (Nickelback's Spider-Man 2 contribution)," Schmidt says. "Dave Sardy was producing the soundtrack and he was given carte blanche to curate the whole thing, so he just picked bands he worked with or liked."

As is the case with many soundtrack songs nowadays, Black Mountain's music wasn't actually featured in the movie.

"I work in a record store and I picked up on the fact that I had these soundtracks that had very little to do with the movie," Schmidt says. "It would either be 'music from' or 'inspired by.' I always laughed at that. 'Here's how inspired we were by Spider-Man 3.'"