Wolfmother
By user • Nov 1st, 2006 • Category: Band Bios
Someone needs to contact Australia and tell everyone in the country it’s 2006. Or at least just tell the musicians. Whether it’s The Vines copping ’90s Nirvana, Rocket Science sounding like the Lime Spiders from the ’80s or Jet mimicking 1970s-era AC/DC — it’s surpassed subtlety to the point of gimmickry. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Wolfmother channels Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. But it shouldn’t come as a disappointment either. While their fellow throwback countrymen sound comfortable as two-bit impersonators recreating forgone eras, Wolfmother rocks like it’s actually from the past — as if the band was somehow cherry-picked from hard rock’s heyday and placed in the present. And regardless of how the trio got here, there’s no question what they’ll do while in town. With enough thunderously dark guitar riffs and vibrato vocal shrieks to knock the Bush (or is it Nixon?) administration on its ass, 2006 doesn’t sound so bad after all.
Chicago Innerview Magazine, November 2006
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