American Goldwing
Album | Blitzen Trapper
There’s blood on these tracks.
Since their 2007 breakout single "Wild Mountain Nation," Portland neo-hippies Blitzen Trapper have been repping Dylan and The Band as well as anyone in the modern indie rock scene. Despite releasing records at a near one-per-year pace, songwriter Eric Earley and bandmates are seldom low on ideas. On a trim record by their standards (only ten concise tracks), the sextet shows that they can sling country-folk hooks with the best of them ("American Goldwing," "Might Find It Cheap") as well as break out the pedal steel and get sentimental in an Uncle Tupelo kind of way ("Love The Way You Walk Away," "Taking It Easy Too Long"). "Street Fighting Sun" truly pushes the band's creative envelope, brandishing the band's axe-wielding skills with some Sabbathy guitarwork alongside their more typical harmonica; it's the sole throwback to the '70s AOR tinge of 2010's Destroyer of the Void. As usual, Earley excels in the role of the world-weary alt-country songwriter, adept at telling tales of alcoholic characters who probably shouldn't be driving (on the playful "Fletcher") as well as first-person whiskey drinking accounts.
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