These guys just tore up the Triple J Hottest 100 with 2 songs in the top 10 and 6 in the top 100 in total making it a new record for Triple J's yearly countdown. Beating the previous 5 by Powderfinger and QOTSA. They talk about these guys being the resurrection of Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin... well they live up to the hype at least in my humble opinion. Here's what Rolling Stones had to say
There's a certain ludicrousness here that's so pronounced it becomes admirable. From the lyrical imagery to the pounding riffs, there's no doubt where Wolfmother are coming from. Our time machine travels back, back ... we hear the stoner sounds of the Californian desert in the '90s devolve towards their point of origin. We see Spinal Tap flash past in an irrelevant wink. Destination: the turn of the '70s, just a few years before the birthdate of our Oz-rock heroes, a time of Led Zeppelin and Ozzy-era Black Sabbath, the dawn of heavy metal.
New (post nu-) metal is nothing new. But unlike the Darkness, Wolfmother appear to be playing it straight, without the winks and smirks. And this debut is all the more daring for it. When 29 year-old singer-guitarist Andrew Stockdale wails in his proto-stadium rock voice about drinking wine from the serpent's vine while lovin' in another time ("White Unicorn"), you forgive - or at least suspend disbelief at - the sentiments, just as you do the ripped off riffs and retro organ sounds. It's all to well-executed to ignore.
Dave Sardy famously produced Jet to world-beating punchy perfection, and he's done his rock-radio crossover job here, embellishing with tasty psychedelics without swamping Stockdale's voice - which tries to fuse Ozzy, the Mars Volta's Cedric Bixler-Rodriguez, and Robert Plant, and almost succeeds. As formulas go, this is a winner, and Wolfmother re-create it with genuine affection. Sure, no band can take us back to 1970. Anyone who saw the How the West Was Won DVD, let alone caught Led Zeppelin live, will understand that's an impossibility. But Wolfmother do stand tall like a living museum piece as the next best option.
I'll be sharing it on hub if you want the album.