HINTERLAND

WOBBLER are pure and pure ear candy for this music lover and "Hinterland" is anything but a cold barren wasteland of songs! Imagine the aggression of WHITE WILLOW, KING CRIMSON and ANEKDOTEN mixed with the gentleness of ÄNGLAGARD and you are not far off the musical landscape this band live to tell. "Hinterland" sounds like a bit of the past and a bit of the present mixing majestic mellotron passages with heavier complex grinds. Wobbler are Lars Fredrik Frøislie (WHITE WILLOW keyboards), Martin Nordrum Kneppen (drums), Kristian Karl Hultgren (bass, sax), Tony Johannessen (vocals) and Morten Andreas Eriksen (guitars). Sonically these guys move from dark mellotron moods to all out heavy KING CRIMSON'ish rally points to gentle cascading Scandinavian folk like parts. The album is essentially 4 epic tracks which hit all the right buttons for me making this simply a grand album.