WOLFMOTHER - 'Victorious' (2016)

07 April 2016

"Are you hearin 'this shit ?! What year are we in? Forgive me, but Wolfmother, you suck!" Do you remember one of the more stupid statements of Mike Patton he made almost 10 years ago? Well, never mind - at least for Andrew Stockdale it doesn’t matter. Two years after the last album of his band Wolfmother - 'New Corwn' (2014), the curly-haired singer and guitarist is back with renewed line-up and a fourth album - 'Victorious'. Now let's see if General Patton was right.

Whether changes in the band matter or not becomes clear from the very first listen to the new record. Woflmother still sounds flashy, dynamic and inflated and the ten tracks give direct, very memorable and quite radio-phonic rock'n'roll with the modern lately vintage sound. Not that the latter is something new for the Australians, of course.

‘The Love That You Give’ and ‘Victorious’ are a fucking cool beginning of a rock'n'roll album, which is what actually ‘Victorious’ is. Beyond that do not expect anything more, nor less. The songs are great hard / heavy rock ideal for chanting in concerts, for headbanging, for long sunny walks around the city.

Andrew hasn’t left the typical retro sound from the previous albums Wolfmother, but hasn’t enriched it with anything new. ‘Victorious’ brings in the same time the mood of The Who's from the late '60s and of Green Day from the end of the 90s - both pop, but with strong rock presence. Vintage, but touchy enough that the youth today would liked it.

The songs on the new Wolfmother do not surprise with anything, if you have listened to the previous albums of the band. Yet again it is very adequate response to the modern pretentious conceptual bands and the insipid tunes of various indie heroes and pop stars. It is both enough rock, so you could enjoy a live show and have real fun, and enough radio-friendly not to startle the audience of mainstream broadcast radio, listening to unfamiliar songs.

Source: RadioTangra.com

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