Wolfmother broke out loudly in 2005 with a superb debut album, in which they exploited their power-trio formation playing an impetuous hard rock, strong and with a remarkable freshness despite its obvious references to the seventies sound of bands such as Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple. After 4 years, an internal fight that left Andrew Stockdale, guitarist and singer, as the only original member of the band, and a change of lineup that includes a second guitar in the hands of Aidan Nemeth, the nowadays quartet presents "Cosmic Egg", their second album, in which they maintain the direct evocations to 70's hard sound but it seems that on this occasion Stockdale bets for a simpler and raw sound leaving aside the elaborated and semi-progressive passages of his previous record going now more to stoner and hard rock in its purest form. With a first part with a lot of punch but without any transcendent, "Cosmic Egg" go better from the second half with solid songs in which they recover some of the freshness and vitality of "Wolfmother" album doing songs like "In The Castle", "Phoenix", "10,000 Feet", which flirt with heavy metal (including a riff that evokes "Kashmir" by Led Zep) and even "Far Away", some kind of power-ballad. At the end, "Cosmic Egg" is a just good enough to muddle through but without the brilliance of its predecessor. -CORANNIEIT-
Wolfmother, Cosmic Egg
Interscope Records, 2009
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