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Wolfmother Unleash The Egg Post by: Eddie Ruckus - Rockin' Blogger 23 October, 2009 - 7:12 AM
It feels like we’ve been there for every step of the recording and build-up of international hype, but finally today, Wolfmother Mk II release album number two, Cosmic Egg.
It’s quite remarkable considering that a year ago, Wolfmother was a band in shambles, with only singer Andrew Stockdale left standing from the original line-up.
Not surprisingly, much of the talk about the new album has involved a lot of explaining about what happened to Wolfmother Mk I.
“You know when you have a holiday and some people tell you what they’ve done on the holiday and some people don’t tell you – that was kind of our relationship,” Stockdale told the BBC in London this week.
“They [Chris Ross and Myles Heskett] had their own rehearsal space in Sydney. I didn’t know what they were doing.”
Of course, everything came to a head after what was meant to be the band’s comeback performance at the Splendour festival in Byron Bay last August and, days later, the group released a statement saying that due to “long standing frictions”, Ross and Heskett were leaving the trio.
This left Stockdale with studio time booked in LA to record a new album but no band to do it with.
“It’d just gotten so ridiculous, the expectation was insane. I was just like, ‘Forget it’.”
Stockdale returned home to Brisbane and “started a band with two dudes who lived across the street.”
“It was so good to be isolated from everyone’s opinion,” he says. There he began writing a new song every day.
“It got to December [2008] and I realised that for better or worse I’ve got to start a band.”
Within a few months, he was on stage at Sound Relief with the new line-up and soon on their way to LA to begin work on Cosmic Egg. And they lived happily ever after … we hope.
Was it all worth it? What do you think of Cosmic Egg?
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