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In the heyday of the 80s, bands wore tight leather pants, had bushy manes of manly hair, band names that sounded vaguely tough, ridiculous album covers, and the music was HEAVY METAL. Welcome, Wolfmother, to the 80s. Wolfmother just plain rocks. They play muscular metal that doesn't wander off into speed, stoner, satanic, prog, thrash, punk, or any other adjective you can put in front of metal. It's just plain heavy metal. And it rocks.
Wolfmother hit it slightly large on their eponymous first album with the descriptively titled single, Woman. The cover is a dark painting of a pale half-naked woman with wings and a tail standing on the shore of a raging ocean. Wolfmother are not subtle and are unapologetically simple. Other songs on Wolfmother, the album, that rock are Tales, Love Train, and Vagabond. Vagabond was used to great effect as the soundtrack to the great montage sequence in (500) Days of Summer when our romantic hero returns from a broken heart by rededicating his life to the manly pursuit of architecture.
On Wolfmother's latest release, Cosmic Egg, they continue to perfect their heavy rocking, high-pitched singing style. My favorite tracks are: New Moon Rising (the get tough song), White Feather (the radio sing-a-long), In The Morning (the power ballad), 10,000 Feet (the scary song), Cosmonaut (the sci-fi song), Caroline (more power balladry), and Phoenix (the rock epic).
