Wild Mountain Nation

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

Wild Mountain Nation
Studio album by
Blitzen Trapper
ReleasedJune 12, 2007
GenreAlternative country
Length33:43
LabelSub 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]

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.TitleLength
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
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References
  1. Whitman, Andy. "Wild Mountain Nation - Blitzen Trapper". AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-03-15.
  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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