Well, Wolfmother, the Australian retro-rockers, finally put out a new album, although this is really a new band, since two of the original trio are no longer with the band. So, this is really Wolfmother 2.0, I guess, with the sole remaining founding member being the vocalist.As a result of this line-up change, it naturally feels a little different from the first album. There is still plenty of 70's era rockadelica on here, with the accompanying soaring Robert Plant-esque vocals, but it's all just a little off.
Luckily, it's all still pretty good.
I have the 16-track "deluxe edition" of the album (by the way, music labels: FUCK YOU for this idiotic shit), and it's all decent enough rock, perhaps a bit more mainstream than the first album, but it's got all the chugging riffs and retarded lyrics you could ever require from this stuff.
If I sound less than super-enthusiastic about the album, it's only because it sounds "good enough", but never really transcends the gimmicky trappings of its retro-rock genre to deliver instant classic tunes like "Woman" off the first album. Regardless, it'll probably grow on me with repeated listenings, as the similarly-troubled second album from The Darkness certainly did.
As usual, you probably know if you're going to like this thing already, so go acquire it if some Guitar Hero-ready pseudo-70's rock riffage is the tonic you require.
1 comments:
"chugging riffs and retarded lyrics"
Exactly. It's weird how the one makes up for the other.
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