New Wolfmother Album 'So Close' To Being Completed

Wolfmother fans can look forward to a new LP from the classic rock loving band sometime in the very near future, if recent comments from the band's creative kingpin and frontman Andrew Stockdale are anything to go by.

Before a big Brisbane show this New Year's Eve, Stockdale spoke with Time Off magazine and said that the band were roughly two-thirds of the way through the follow up to 2009'sCosmic Egg.

"We are so close to having this record completed," he said. "It's been about 15 months of on-and-off recording in about four or five different locations… We've mixed and mastered about eight of the tracks, and there's probably going to be about 12 tracks that end up on there.”

Stockdale said that the record has a working title of Gatherings and that he feels he is not in a position to be putting out something that isn't of high quality.

“I've been around long enough now, and had enough opportunity to be involved in music and doing this style of Wolfmother, that I really should be able to make a pretty good record. Like, if you don't like it then that's probably just because you don't like Wolfmother, because, essentially, I don't have an excuse at this point to put out a crap record… I'm lining myself up for criticism there, but that's just the way that I look at it, I should be able to do the best that I can do at this point.”

As for how it will sound, Stockdale offered a few hints.

“One of the songs has a total Southern rock Texas boogie ZZ Top-kinda vibe, then there's others that have a Danzig kinda-metal epic element and then there's another song that has a sort of Stones-y blues feel and then there's another one that's kind of like a full-on Devandra Banhart folk-style song…"

You can read the full interview with Stockdale right here.