Blitzen Trapper - Wild Mountain Nation

Blitzen Trapper, the teeming Portland, Oregon-based musical clan, are pleased to
    announce the impending arrival of their third brood of offspring-songs, that is-in the shape
    of an album called Wild Mountain Nation, to be -released internationally on October 22,
    2007 by Sub Pop.
    
    From outer space to down at the farm, campfire sing-a-long to dystopic atonal
    deconstruction, 'Wild Mountain Nation' presents a raucous and varied constellation of
    favorite souvenirs from the Trapper's musical adventures. Brought forth in a spasm of
    creative mania, Nation is rough-hewn but lush, crackling (sometimes audibly) with a weird
    and lucid energy. The album was recorded and arranged by the band themselves, using a
    dizzying variety of techniques and media, including a secret process learned from friendly
    extraterrestrials. As always, though, the group's trusty four-track was used to capture the
    "soul," "essence," or "kernel" of each song, which was then buried in a rich humus of
    articulation, embellishment, and attenuation, so that after the summer a nutritious, colorful
    variety of fresh music was drooping from the vine (so to speak). A rich harvest: dusty
    bones, sunrise, Philip K. Dick, Guernica, barley wine, sycamore or doug fir, snowflake,
    Sally Mack's School of Dance, Scooby-Doo, bigfoot.
    
    Pitchfork review 8.5/10 "On their third album, Portland-based Blitzen Trapper unleash a
    cock-eyed stylistic blitzkrieg that comes closer to catching the carefree fuck-off sprawl of
    Pavement's Wowee Zowee than any record in recent memory. Spanning midwestern
    country-rock, mild-mannered indie pop, jagged art-rock, and West Coast swoon, Wild
    Mountain Nation swears allegiance to multiple touchstones of indie rock without limiting
    itself to just one"


    1. Devil's A-Go-Go 2. Wild Mountain Nation 3. Futures & Folly 4. Miss Spiritual Tramp 5.
    Woof & Warp of the Quiet Giant's Hem  6. Sci-Fi Kid 7. Wild MTN. Jam 8. Hot Tip/Tough
    Cub 9. The Green King Sings 10. Summer Town 11. Murder Babe 12. Country Caravan 13.
    Badger's Black Brigade  

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