Wild Mountain Nation

Wild Mountain Nation
Studio album by Blitzen Trapper
Released June 12, 2007
Genre Alternative country
Length 33:43
Label Sub Pop
Blitzen Trapper chronology
Field Rexx
(2004)		 Wild Mountain Nation
(2007)		 Furr
(2008)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic82/100 link
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Pitchfork Media8.5/10.0[2]
PopMatters7/10[3]

Wild Mountain Nation is a 2007 album by Blitzen Trapper. The album was honoured as "Best New Music" by Pitchfork Magazine, receiving a rating of 8.5 out of 10.[2]

Sub Pop Records describes the album as such:

“ From outerspace to down at the farm, campfire singalong to dystopic atonal deconstruction, Wild Mountain Nation presents a raucous and varied constellation of favorite souvenirs from the Trapper 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.[4] ”

Track listing

All songs written by Eric Earley.

No. Title Length
1. "Devil's A-Go-Go"   3:02
2. "Wild Mountain Nation"   2:42
3. "Futures & Folly"   2:14
4. "Miss Spiritual Tramp"   2:59
5. "Woof & Warp of the Quiet Giant's Hem"   2:48
6. "Sci-Fi Kid"   3:04
7. "Wild Mtn. Jam"   1:05
8. "Hot Tip/Tough Cub"   3:27
9. "The Green King Sings"   3:16
10. "Summer Town"   2:24
11. "Murder Babe"   2:51
12. "Country Caravan"   2:04
13. "Badger's Black Brigade"   1:47

References

  1. ↑ Whitman, Andy. "Wild Mountain Nation - Blitzen Trapper". AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-03-15.
  2. 1 2 "Blitzen Trapper: Wild Mountain Nation | Album Reviews". Pitchfork. 2007-06-14. Retrieved 2012-03-15.
  3. ↑ Womack, Tyler. "Blitzen Trapper: Wild Mountain Nation < PopMatters". Popmatters.com. Retrieved 2012-03-15.
  4. ↑ "Sub Pop Records". Retrieved 2012-03-15.


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