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WOLFMOTHER
drop surprise new album
ROCK OUT
and headlining
Uncaged Festival
in January and February 2022

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Around March 2020 the world took a break from live music with the onset of a worldwide pandemic, in case you hadn’t heard? When the world stage shut down, WOLFMOTHER’s Andrew Stockdale took to the home studio playing all of the instruments, crafting out album #6, Rock Out. With mental health becoming one of the most prevalent issues during the pandemic, Stockdale used the majesty of rock with all of its chakra healing qualities to guide himself with the creation of Rock Out. The idea of Rock’n’Roll giving pure transportation to a better place amidst all of the monotony of daily covid life became a self-help cathartic release delivered with a New York Cab driver twang. If you can’t travel during a pandemic, you can get in a cab straight to Hell’s Kitchen with this little number.

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Moving along it’s time to go Transatlantic back to the mother land of British Rock with the familiar yet unfamiliar ‘Feelin Love’ it’s Cream, it’s Deep Purple, it’s some other band who knows but it’s 2021 and it’s fresh off the ranks in the form of WOLFMOTHER. The track, swings and pumps along in it effortless, unaware manner, then leaves you hanging for a massive POG induced, riff ladened chorus with ‘Feelin Love’. Then it’s time for some angst and existential crisis with the self-imposed neurosis of ‘Humble’. Life has become extremely pragmatic, and the world has been contact traced into the wrath of drop D relentless riffage. With enough tension to melt a Marshall amp the “waiting for Goddo” type theme entertains the daily musings of delusion and procrastination. This is resolved in humility to accept one’s fate and do the best one can. It is a silent victory essentially over nothing except daily existence with a song to show for it. After completing this all on electric drums and plug in amps … and everything very digitised and laptopish.

Stockdale contemplated the idea of re-tracking with live drums with over dubs. Rather than going to L.A to a fancy studio that looks good on paper, Stockdale went local and recorded the whole record for the most part in his home studio, with a local 19-year-old second year student from SAE Institute in Byron Bay. Yes, the Grammy award winning, multi-platinum artist put his creative vision in the hands of a local, novice with little experience. Maybe there’s a side of Stockdale that achieved this success while being a novice with no experience himself, sometimes unbridled youthful enthusiasm will get the results undenounced to itself. Though the ears don’t lie and if it sounds good that’s all that matters. From here Stockdale called on longtime touring cohort Hamish Rosser to contribute drum duties. Most of the record was tracked in one day in Stockdale’s front room in time for school pick up. Did someone call this ‘Dad rock’?  So, the drums were smashed out in one session. Then a few more songs were written just to beef it up and give it some extra kick … tracks such as ‘Outside’, ‘Only Way’ and ‘Humble’ were last minute creations, that were now rehearsed and fleshed out with a band at Stockdale’s new Wolf Cave (which was a former art gallery up at “Bangalow Plaza”). A legendary veteran of many a great record, Paul Pilsnenks dropped into engineer ‘Humble’ which was completely tracked in about 3 hours one night in September 2021.

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All in all, this record in its various incarnations from demo to live band recording was in its gestation period for about a year and a half. Also, Alexx McConnell stepped in on bass duties for ‘Humble’ and ‘Only Way’ becoming a local recruit for shows after all of the travel restrictions that were made throughout the year, which afforded WOLFMOTHER to do online gigs and a handful of local shows. One could say this record was an ode to the front men and riff masters of yester year via, London, New Jersey, Birmingham through to Pasadena then Byron Bay and back; it’s a soundtrack for an imaginary stadium tour of 1982 that never happened. Yet it exists none the less in Mp3 and WAV format on your chosen digital platform be it iTunes, Spotify, Apple Music etc. May the algorithms be kind and get this thing heard by many a fan and possible new fans, keeping the Rock’n’Roll dream alive. Remember when in doubt, Rock Out!

You can also grab the album HERE

WOLFMOTHER are also headlining the UNCAGED Festival in January and February 2022. Uncaged (Presented by Silverback Touring) is the newest rock festival on the Australian festival circuit and packs a punch of musical diversity catering to fans of hard rock, alternative, pop punk, prog, metal and everything in between.

The first line up offering features heavyweights, WOLFMOTHER, who headline Uncaged after spending the majority of their career touring and selling out theatres, stadiums and festivals the world over. Uncaged marks the bands return to Australian festival stages following their last major Australian tour in late 2019 and early 2020.

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UNCAGED
Festival Dates

Saturday 22nd January
BRISBANE, Showgrounds

Saturday 29th January
MELBOURNE, Coburg Velodrome

Saturday 12th February
SYDNEY, Showground

Tickets on sale now

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About WOLFMOTHER

Led by vocalist/guitarist Andrew Stockdale, Wolfmother has amassed a global fanbase, played to packed-house crowds around the world and delivered showstealing sets at star-studded festivals like Coachella, Isle of Wight, Lollapalooza, Splendour in the Grass, Rock en Seine and Fuji Rock to name a few. They’ve been invited to share stages with rock icons AC/DC and Guns ’N Roses and for Led Zeppelin’s induction into the UK Music Hall of Fame, Wolfmother was personally invited as their guest performers.

Wolfmother was certified Gold in the States, Germany, Canada and 5 x Platinum in the band’s Australian homeland. Lead single “Woman” hit top ten on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks Chart and won a Grammy for “Best Hard Rock Performance”. Their songs became ubiquitous, appearing in films (Ironman 3, Spiderman 3, Zoolander 2, Jackass, The Hangover 1 & 2, 500 Days of Summer), video games (Guitar Hero, Gran Turismo, Tony Hawk’s P8, Shaun White’s Skateboarding, LEGO DC Superheroes, DiRT) and a variety of television commercials (Apple, Mitsubishi, Honda, Peugeot). After the colossal success of their debut record, Stockdale wrote and released another four records under the moniker of Wolfmother: Cosmic Egg, New Crown, Victorious and more recently Rock’n’Roll Baby, as well as two solo records Keep Moving and Slipstream. Stockdale has also collaborated on Slash’s first solo effort, ‘By The Sword’ and last year with Chris Cester of Jet on ‘Chase The Feeling’

AMNPLIFY – DB