Album Review: Wolfmother (2006)
The debut release from this Oz power trio is like everything and nothing you've ever heard before.
If you're a fan of 70s FM album rock, you'll like it. If not, you will absolutely frickin' hate it. The lead singer is an exact cross between Ozzy and Robert Plant. There are tons of Deep Purple-y organs. The drumming sounds like Ginger Baker at his most intense. There are flutes and cowbells, too.
Wolfmother is like Audioslave/Rage Against the Machine with Tony Iommi producing. It's intense, but uniquely so. You have to hear it for yourself. Although it's not for everyone, it's a very, very strong debut that I think could potentially become one of hard music's biggest first efforts ever - a sort of "Nevermind" for the 2000's. (And how about that album cover, baby?!? Does that scream "we are not screwing around" or what?)
Suffice it to say that there are going to be a lot of pimply-faced teens smoking up to this disc over the summer.
Overall rating: 7/10
posted by Road Hammer @ 8:15 PM
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Hammer, thanks for the review -- I've been thinking of picking this up myself.
Suggest also checking out Black Mountain's self-titled effort, in case you haven't done so already.
These rockin' Canadians also blast it out in the spirit of Sabbath, with a softer tone in a couple of spots. Solid disc through and through. With your old-school metal pedigree, I think you'd dig it -- Greener.
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