Mountain Top

“Mountain Top” is a track from the album “The Boys Of Dungeon Lane“, released in 2026.

It’s like Coachella and Glastonbury … kind of people going off for the weekend to trip out and get stoned. And we go to quite a few festivals these days. We would’ve gone to Glastonbury this year, but it’s not on this year. I was trying to get that feeling of a young girl at the festival, tripping out.

Paul McCartney – From Variety, April 17, 2026 – From the “Boys of Dungeon Lane” listening session, April 16, 2026

Produced with tape loops, the spacy song is from the perspective of a young girl tripping out with her friends at a music festival. McCartney’s voice is almost unrecognizable in the dreamy song that sounds like a cousin to “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds.” After singing about how everyone’s tripping, McCartney adds, “everyone’s flipping/need to get a grip and get away, or do you want to stay.” The adventurous tune, which bursts into psychedelic warp speed at one point with pounding guitars and drums, would sound even more experimental if it weren’t created by the person who, with his friends 70 years ago, completely invented a new language for rock ‘n’ roll.

From Billboard, April 17, 2026

After the track played out, he addressed an obvious touch that was delighting Beatles fans in the assemblage. “We use tape loops,” he said. “Any excuse to get tape loops for me! I love them,” he affirmed, noting it produces an effect “you don’t get any other way.” And he confirmed whose spoken voice appears at the end of the track, although it was hard to decipher on first listen what she was saying. “We put Nancy’s voice through a tape loop, at the end there,” he said.

From the front row, Shevell jumped in with a one-word assessment of her own contribution to the stoney track: “Riveting!”

From Variety, April 17, 2026 – From the “Boys of Dungeon Lane” listening session, April 16, 2026

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