1. The Love That You Give
2. Victorious
3. Baroness
4. Pretty Peggy
5. City Lights
6. The Simple Life
7. Best of a Bad Situation
8. Gypsy Caravan
9. Happy Face
10. Eye of the Beholder

Andrew Stockdale – vocals, guitar, bass
Ian Peres – keyboards
Josh Freese – drums
Joey Waronker – drums
Brendan O'Brien –mixing, percussion

Grammy award-winning Australian hard rock band Wolfmother released its highly anticipated new album Victorious on February 19, 2016.

Wolfmother was founded by singer/guitarist Andrew Stockdale in 2000 and released its platinum-selling eponymous debut in 2005. The album spawned six singles, including the breakout hit “Woman”. The song was a monster hit on US rock radio in 2006, and peaked at #7 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart and #10 on the Modern Rock chart. “Woman" won the Grammy award for Best Hard Rock Performance in 2007.

A decade after Wolfmother made its debut the band returns with Victorious. Recorded at Henson Studios in Los Angeles with two-time Grammy-winning producer Brendan O’Brien (Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Bruce Springsteen), Stockdale began working on the record in January at studio in New South Wales, writing songs on guitar, bass and drums and approaching the album as he did on the first Wolfmother album ten years ago.

Of the writing process, Stockdale says, “Back in the early days, I’d play guitar, bass, and drums and then present the ideas to the band and we’d work on the arrangement together. I thought it would be cool to get back to demoing ideas by myself, and playing everything. It’s a good way to do things because it can make the style more cohesive.”

Stockdale sings and played guitar and bass but had Josh Freese (Eagles of Death Metal, Queens of the Stone Age, Nine Inch Nails, A Perfect Circle) and Joey Waronker (Beck, Gnarls Barkley) come in to record drums for different tracks. Led by Stockdale, Wolfmother has amassed a huge global fanbase, played shows around the world and at star-studded festivals like Coachella, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Isle of Wight, Rock am Ring and Reading and Leeds, and have shared stages with Aerosmith and AC/DC. When Led Zeppelin was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame, the band personally invited Wolfmother as their guests (the band showed their appreciation by delivering an electrifying cover of “Communication Breakdown”). ---Mick Stingley, axs.com

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1 	Colossal	5:03
2 	Woman 	2:56
3 	White Unicorn 	5:02
4 	Pyramid 	4:28
5 	Mind's Eye 	4:53
6 	Joker & The Thief 	4:40
7 	Dimension 	4:26
8 	Where Eagles Have Been	5:33
9 	Apple Tree	3:28
10 	Tales From The Forest Of Gnomes 	3:37
11 	Witchcraft	3:25
12 	Vagabond	3:52

Bass, Keyboards – Chris Ross
Drums – Myles Heskett
Vocals, Guitar – Andrew Stockdale
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Flute – Dan Higgins (11)
Percussion – D. Sardy (1,8,12), Lenny Castro (9,11)

There's no denying Australian heavy rock trio Wolfmother has been raised on rock -- specifically, raised on '70s rock. Problem is, from all appearances on their eponymous debut, they made their journey into the past via the twin gateway drugs of the White Stripes and Queens of the Stone Age, and once they dug back to the original Zeppelin and Sabbath texts (stopping along the way for some Soundgarden discs and maybe, for lyrical inspiration, Yes and Rush), they indulged so much it screwed with their sense of aesthetics. They threw everything and anything together, not bothering with minor problems like how their frenzied retro-rock doesn't quite support songs with titles like "The White Unicorn" and "Where Eagles Have Been" -- Zeppelin drew inspiration from J.R.R. Tolkien and Sabbath certainly sang about fairies and gnomes, but neither band sounded as precious, inarticulate, or confused as Wolfmother does here. And their naïveté is not limited to guitarist Andrew Stockdale's stock swords 'n' sorcery imagery: they mix up their musical clichés in bewildering ways, as riffs lifted from Soundgarden ("Rusty Cage" provides the opening for "Joker & the Thief") give way to a QOTSA stomp as sung by Jack White (whose ghost is also heard on the title of "Apple Tree," not to mention its frenetic verses), or how a complicated Zep riff is graced by a Jethro Tull flute solo on "Witchcraft." Blame it on their youth -- all this stuff was new to them, so they absorbed it all at once then quickly regurgitated it in ways that won't seem to make much sense to anybody familiar with their inspirations (and their clunky funk-rock workout "Love Train" simply won't make sense to anybody anywhere). At times, Wolfmother's unintentionally bizarre amalgams are kind of delightful, and the group does have a basic, brutal sonic force that is pretty appealing, but even at their best, they never banish the specters of the bands that they desperately mimic throughout this promising but muddled debut. They have enough of a good thing going here to suggest that they'd be a killer live band, but not enough to make this record all too memorable on its own terms. ---Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic Review

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1. Dimension
2. New Moon Rising
3. Woman
4. White Unicorn
5. Cosmic Egg
6. Mind’s Eye
7. California Queen
8. Vagabond
9. Apple Tree
10. Colossal

Musicians:
Andrew Stockdale – lead vocals, lead guitar 
Ian Peres – bass, keyboards, backing vocals 
Aidan Nemeth – rhythm guitar
Will Rockwell-Scott – drums

Truly a band out of time, the Australian power trio Wolfmother were conceived in 2000 -- about 30 years too late, considering that the musicians' psychedelic brand of proto-heavy metal sounded similar to the late-'60s/early-'70s craft of Blue Cheer and Black Sabbath. Comprised of vocalist/guitarist Andrew Stockdale, bassist/organist Chris Ross, and drummer Myles Heskett, Wolfmother took the initiative of recording a four-track demo in 2004 for the purpose of booking shows. So sterling were the results, however, that the band soon found itself re-recording the material for official release via the local label Modular Records. A second EP, Dimensions, appeared in 2006, and Wolfmother made the jump to the majors in early 2006, courtesy of an American distribution deal with Modular through Interscope Records. A self-titled album debut appeared in May and reached the Top 40, resulting in a trophy for Best Hard Rock Performance at the 2007 Grammy Awards. Co-founders Ross and Heskett left the group the following year, leaving Stockdale and new members Ian Peres (bass, keyboards), Aidan Nemeth (guitar), and Dave Atkins (drums) to carry the torch with 2009's Cosmic Egg. --- Eduardo Rivadavia, allmusic.com

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