Wild Mountain Nation

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]

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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

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