Like I’ve Got To Set You Free

Wolfmother “Woman (Avalanches Millstream Remix)” – I don’t have an enormous problem with people ripping off Robert Plant, or Jimmy Page, or John Bonham. It’s actually pretty understandable, if you’ve got the chops. However, I really can’t get behind a band full of members aping all three of them at the same time, especially if they don’t bother to mimic post-IV John Paul Jones while they are at it. So this is why I had to take a pass on Wolfmother the first seven or eight times I was sent their record. But oh, those damn Avalanches had to come along and break their song open and turn it into something pretty fantastic. Short of radical filtering in post-production, there’s not much you can do to take the Plant out of this guy’s voice, so the Avalanches don’t bother. They embrace it, and basically drop everything else from the arrangement except for a some Rick Rubenesque guitar chunks dropped in for isolated bursts of excitement. Avalanches, please – make more remixes, or another album, as soon as possible! This periodic teasing is driving me crazy. (Click here for the Avalanches’ site.)