While Wolfmother may have lost two thirds of its lineup when band members Myles Heskett and Chris Ross departed last year citing "longstanding frictions", that’s not stopping frontman Andrew Stockdale from pushing on with the band’s name. Since the breakup, Stockdale has recruited three new members and is preparing the band’s new album which is due out later this year.
Speaking to
Nme.com about the album, tentatively titled "
Cosmic Egg",
Stockdale says, "
We're almost there. I've done 18 songs. Hopefully it should be out in September."
"Before the other guys left I'd written all these songs for Wolfmother," Stockdale says about his decision to continue using the band’s name. "To put it out under another name seemed kind of ridiculous. I thought why not continue? I got some new people in the band. I had the songs and whoever was around was in the band. Sounds a bit dangerous!"
He goes on to explain why he chose to title the new album "Cosmic Egg". He says, "I did a yoga class and one of the poses we were doing was called 'cosmic egg', and I thought yeah, that's it. It's like the fetal pose"
Finally, he compares the sound of the new record versus the previous one as "magnified". "Everything is magnified," Stockdale says. "The heaviness is magnified to heavier state. The simple ones are really simplistic, two-minute songs, and the journey songs are like 12 parts."
Wolfmother is currently recording the new album at Sound City Studios in Los Angeles, CA.
Report by David Lowe-Bianco.
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