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Album Reviews
Album Review: Wolfmother – Cosmic Egg (Modular Records)
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 20 November 2009
They say that imitation is the highest form of flattery. Well, Robert Plant, consider yourself squarely and wholly flattered. This is probably not the first time Australian hard-rock revivers Wolfmother have been compared to Zeppelin, and likely not the last. But isn’t the classic rock revival so three years ago?
‘Cosmic Egg’ sounds like it was made with ‘Guitar Hero’ in mind (how’s that for a marketing ploy?) – bursting with fuck-yeah riffs and Stockdale’s signature howl that makes him sound like he was seriously born into the wrong decade. Black Sabbath-esque ‘10,000 Feet’ is, at a stretch, the album’s best track, with its fuzzy-but-hard chord progressions and vintage Ozzy vocals.
But is the album, as a whole, really that exciting? Er, not really. Many of the songs sound the same, and perhaps its biggest crime is that it sounds just like their self-titled debut, despite Stockdale himself being the only original band member standing on its release. Nevetheless, taking it at face-value, ‘Cosmic Egg’ is fun – in a fluffy, clichéd kind of way. TW
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