After throwing together indie-rock melodies, unhinged country jams, and folky barn-stompers on 2007’s breakout, Wild Mountain Nation, Blitzen Trapper spent its next two records sharpening its focus. Furr jettisoned pop songs for a bipolar collection of boogie power-rock and Americana-inspired ballads, while Destroyer Of The Void scaled back the rough guitarwork for proggy, mellow anthems of the western wilderness. For American Goldwing, Blitzen Trapper revisits the other half of Furr, delivering a masterful homage to Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Band, and other pillars of ’70s Southern rock. It’s straightforward, no-frills nostalgia, but American Goldwing nonetheless shows the band’s ...
- 9/13/2011
- avclub.com
Long gone is the Blitzen Trapper of 2007’s Wild Mountain Nation, an album on which too many ideas vied for too little space, and bratty Beck-isms and Sparklehorse synths jostled against delectable hooks that crunched like rock candy. Destroyer Of The Void finds the band further refining the indie Americana and ’70s classic rock of 2008’s Furr, sanding down that album’s pointier edges and using pristine vocal harmonies as cotton batting between proggy flourishes and bits of Queen bombast. The results are by turns soporific and sublime; the one-two punch of the title track and “Laughing Lover ...
- 6/8/2010
- avclub.com
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