Victorious by Wolfmother

Victorious, Wolfmother's fourth studio album, came out on 19 February 2016 through Universal Music Enterprises, their first major-label release since Cosmic Egg. Andrew Stockdale started on it after spending 2014 promoting New Crown, then took it to Henson Recording Studios in Hollywood with producer Brendan O'Brien. Wolfmother by now was essentially Stockdale: he wrote every song and played all the guitars and bass as well as singing, with regular bassist Ian Peres limited to keyboards, Josh Freese and Joey Waronker sitting in on drums, and O'Brien adding parts of his own.

The result is a meaty slab of riff-first hard rock, all fuzz and falsetto. Plenty of critics called it a return to form after the lineup churn and the low-key independent New Crown, while others heard a band leaning too hard on its heroes. The title track reached number 26 on the US Mainstream Rock chart, and the album made the top 40 in Australia and the UK.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.