I’ve been listening to this new Wolfmother song called “Back Round.” It sounds a lot like the Wolfmother that I fell in love with a couple years ago, but missing something. I did a bit of Googling and discovered the band is now two original members lighter. The only remaining founding member is singer, Andrew Stockdale. The song has a lot of Wolfmother’s signature guitar heavy riffs but somehow sounds a little less Sabbath and a little more White Stripes. I’m not saying the song is bad, it just isn’t affecting me like the first album did. 2006’s “Minds Eye” had it all, they painted a great sort of psychadelic, heavy and fantasy world that I haden’t heard in music for a long time. (check out the amazing album cover)
The jury is still out on the new material, hoopefully “Back Round” isn’t the best track on the album. You can download the track for free over at wolfmother.com