Blitzen Trapper – Wild Mountain Nation
This debut album bounces from genre to genre, which a naysayer would call a lack of focus and a true believer would call range. I call it somewhere in between. The band curates a natural history museum’s worth of idioms: garage rock (“Devil’s a-Go-Go”); Skynyrdisms (“Wild Mountain Nation”); twisted experimental rock (“Woof & Warp of the Quiet Giant’s Hem”); and Wilco-like country rock (“Summer Town”, “Country Caravan”). But this museum is the kind with the sexy interactive exhibits, not the static dioramas of cavemen hunting for wooly mammoths.
