07.

Wolfmother
Wolfmother

Damn this rocks. Goddamn. Wolfmother focus that primal energy and make good old fashioned rock ‘n’ roll. This is an album that feeds on the classics without shame, and yet, sounds crisp and fresh today. One can hear Zeppelin, or Sabbath or Purple, or any number of those kinds of bands. Yet, you can also hear the White Stripes, or Franz Ferdinand. A rock album of the highest order, Wolfmother has stayed with me all year (though at one point it was easily my number one). Hammond organs are cool again, it’s official. I adore every track, and feel this album links my music of today to the music that informed my entire taste. A bridge to the old world, as it were. Exceptional musicianship is here in abundance, and is highly important, but there is something else at work too. Wolfmother simply know how to rock. They don’t care if you think their hair is silly (or that their faux-fantasy album cover is a step too far), they are too busy rocking.