Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg

Those of you who love the 60's and 70's hard rock and have never heard of Wolfmother, please do humanity a favor and throw yourself in front of a bus...

For their second album Cosmic Egg half the lineup changed with new bassist Ian Peres and Aiden Nemeth on guitar. Many people were hesitant and even skeptical about the new production, but they most definitely hit the nail on the head. All the songs have their own type of flare yet you can move from track to track and feel that they're interconnected. The disc starts off with a bang with California Queen, which goes from fast paced to slow and distorted to fast paced again (which is symbolic of the whole disc). Where the disc shines is in the slower, ballad type songs. In the Morning, Far Away, and Caroline are absolute get-your-lighter-out-and-rock-it-back-and-forth classics of which I can put in an infinite loop and never get tired. White Feather and Eyes Open look like they were taken straight out of a Zep album (which is nothing to be ashamed of, the more the merrier). Sundial and 10,000 Feet are in-your-face illegitimate children of AC/DC and Black Sabbath.

Rock fans rejoice, as long as these guys are alive the genre will live on...

1. California Queen
2. New Moon Rising
3. White Feather
4. Sundial
5. In the Morning
6. 10,000 feet
7. Cosmic Egg
8. Far Away
9. Cosmonaut
10. Pilgrim
11. Eyes Open
12. Back Around
13. In the Castle
14. Caroline
15. Pheonix
16. Violence of the Sun