Wild Mountain Nation

Studio album by Blitzen Trapper

Released

June 12, 2007

Genre

Alternative country

Length

33:43

Label

Sub Pop

Blitzen Trapper chronology

Field Rexx
(2004)

Wild Mountain Nation
(2007)

Furr
(2008)

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	82/100 link
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Pitchfork Media	8.5/10.0^[2]
PopMatters	7/10^[3]

Wild Mountain Nation is a 2007 album by Blitzen Trapper. The album was honoured as "Best New Music" by Pitchfork Magazine, receiving a rating of 8.5 out of 10.^[2]

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.	Title	Length
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

References

↑ Whitman, Andy. "Wild Mountain Nation - Blitzen Trapper". AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-03-15.
1 2 "Blitzen Trapper: Wild Mountain Nation | Album Reviews". Pitchfork. 2007-06-14. Retrieved 2012-03-15.
↑ Womack, Tyler. "Blitzen Trapper: Wild Mountain Nation < PopMatters". Popmatters.com. Retrieved 2012-03-15.
↑ "Sub Pop Records". Retrieved 2012-03-15.

Blitzen Trapper

Eric Earley Erik Menteer Brian Andrian Koch Michael VanPelt Marty Marquis Drew Laughery

Studio albums	Blitzen Trapper Field Rexx Wild Mountain Nation Furr Destroyer of the Void American Goldwing VII All Across This Land

Live Albums	Live in Portland Live Harvest

EPs	"Advance Album Sampler Promo Thingy" "Cool Love #1" "Black River Killer" "Maybe Baby"

Singles	"Gold For Bread" "Love the Way You Walk Away/Might Find It Cheap" "Shine On/Thirsty Man"

As Garmonbozia	untitled 1940 Perms, Porn and the Gestalt Tremolopsi! The Omnibus and the Baker's Man Boom R/L Duble Pepy Majik Plus UNRL

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