Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg
For all the hard rockers out there, Cosmic Egg is an enjoyable way to see out the end of the year.
Read more on Wolfmother Listen to Wolfmother on Spotify
Australia’s a funny place. It’s got weird animals like kangaroos, summer when it really should be winter and it reared those bastions of rock ‘n’ roll AC/DC. Angus Young ‘n’ co have certainly influenced a fair number of sweaty axe-bands in their time, including compatriots and comrades in the guitar riff, Wolfmother.
They’re on their second album, line-up massacred and re-assembled. Lead man Andrew Stockdale is the sole survivor from Black August 2008, in which the chap who plays-bass-but-sometimes-keyboards and the drummer engaged in self-exile and jumped ship. The result is Cosmic Egg, and its opener ‘California Queen’ is pure Aussie at times, with its AC/DC buzz riff which eventually crashes into vocal wails akin to The Music.
Make no mistake, this is pretty much rock ‘n’ balls throughout. ‘New Moon Rising’ is a slithering number and sure to get hundreds of unassuming hits on Youtube from Twilight fans, whilst the signature lick of ‘Sundial’ is Muse on steroids and dragged through a hedge sideways.
There are a few lighter shades on this record that helps to give it a little colour; ‘In The Morning’ and ‘Far Away’ enjoy some pop-rock pomp, but it’s with the Black Sabbath-esque guitar wizardry in which this album shines. The riffs are recycled at times however and it lacks the vital urgency of their debut, but for all the hard rockers out there, Cosmic Egg is an enjoyable way to see out the end of the year.
RSS Feed
Comments