Wolfmother Frontman Speaks

Wolfmother’s Andrew Stockdale has revealed details of the disbanding of the band and of their new album, ‘Cosmic Egg’.

Original Wolfmother bassist Chris Ross and drummer Myles Heskett left the band last August over “personal and musical differences” with Stockdale, who has revealed that his ex-band mates gave him the go-ahead to continue using the Wolfmother name.

“Before the other guys left I’d written all these songs for Wolfmother,” Stockdale explained  to Spinner.com. “To put it out under another name seemed kind of ridiculous. I thought why not continue? I got some new people in the band. I had the songs and whoever was around was in the band. 

The group, which is now a quartet, played two low-key shows earlier this year in their home country of

Australia under the name ‘White Feather’ before playing one larger show as Wolfmother. Now, Stockdale and his new band mates have nearly completed the follow-up to Wolfmother’s 2006 self-titled debut, which he says will be called ‘Cosmic Egg’.

“We’re almost there, I’ve done 18 songs. Hopefully it should be out in September.”

Stockdale also offers an explanation for the odd album title; “I did a yoga class and one of the poses we were doing was called ‘cosmic egg’, and I thought yeah, that’s it. It’s like the fetal pose,” he said. Album song titles include ‘White Feather’, ‘Violence in the Sun’ and the album’s title track.