Wolfmother

Wolfmother came out of Sydney sounding like somebody had found a crate of vintage heavy rock in a basement and decided the whole thing needed reopening. Andrew Stockdale sings and plays guitar with a wail that goes straight for the rafters, and in the original trio Chris Ross handled bass and keyboards while Myles Heskett pounded the drums. The three had spent years jamming informally before they got serious, signed to the independent Modular label and put out an EP whose "Woman", "Dimension", "Apple Tree" and "The White Unicorn" announced them with a fuzzed-out roar.

The self-titled album followed in Australia in 2005, climbing to number 3 at home, and Interscope and Island took it to the rest of the world a year later, with "Joker and the Thief" and "Colossal" riding big, stomping riffs and swirling organ.

Then the band came apart. Ross and Heskett left in 2008, and Stockdale, the one constant through every lineup, rebuilt around bassist and keyboardist Ian Peres, rhythm guitarist Aidan Nemeth and drummer Dave Atkins for Cosmic Egg in 2009, home of "New Moon Rising". The lineup has kept spinning ever since; one planned Wolfmother record came out as a Stockdale solo album instead, but in 2016 the name returned to a major label with Victorious.

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