Wolfmother
"Mind's Eye"
"Mind's Eye" begins with the melancholic lilt of a period drama, all waning back-noise and crestfallen fret work. The Wolfies maintain the morose pace through the first verse, where lead singer Andrew Stockdale wails, "When the time is right and the night is bright, we will see the things we've come to find." That right there's proof that creative-writing-club-caliber phraseology can sound cool as fuck if you can scream like Robert Plant's pet banshee. Seriously, you can almost feel his spittle peppering your cheek through the speakers. Stockdale's high-arcing "come and see the mind's eye, transfixed upon the why" is a painfully perfect hooksimple enough to sing along to, yet vague enough to ensure he'll never have to explain what it means. Turning interjections into nouns is hot like that. The vigorous, tempo-smashin' footrace toward the end of the song gives Chris Ross a chance to gallop heavily over the organ keys, transforming a perfectly comfy mix tape bookend into a dashboard drummer's wet dream. Ladies, Wolfmother's got gloriously curly hair for kilometers, and offers up more smoldering Aussie anguish than Russell Crowe stuck in gridlock. Get your tickets early.
Wolfmother will prowl the TLA Sunday, June 4.