New Crown

For some Wolfmother fans, there may have been just a tad too much polish atop the sludgy grooves and bluesy riffs on 2009’s *Cosmic Egg*, a problem remedied on *New Crown*. Featuring a new lineup (and some reported hesitation about the moniker due to those changes), *New Crown* is rife with smart arrangements, hooky and brawny melodies, and plenty of the blustery swagger that landed the Australian band a GRAMMY® back in 2006. If you can live with deep, muddy wells of fuzz and recording levels that change from track to track, then Stockdale’s continued devotion to the legacies of Led Zep and Black Sabbath will have you doing the guitar boogie wherever you happen to be listening. With enormous, grinding grooves on tracks like “Radio” and “I Ain’t Got No” and propulsive, kerosene-fueled tunes like “How Many Times” and “Enemy Is Your Mind,” *New Crown* is another top-notch example of old things made new again.

Wolfmother - New Crown review: While still as thick skin as ever when it comes to criticism, Wolfmother's 3rd LP proves the band are far from relevant