| Wild Mountain Nation | ||||
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| Released | June 12, 2007 | |||
| Genre | Alternative country | |||
| Length | 33:43 | |||
| Label | Sub Pop | |||
| Blitzen Trapper chronology | ||||
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| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 82/100 [1] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| Christgau’s Consumer Guide | A− [3] |
| Cokemachineglow | 81% [4] |
| Drowned in Sound | 8/10 [5] |
| The Guardian | [6] |
| The Line of Best Fit | 90% [7] |
| musicOMH | [8] |
| Pitchfork Media | 8.5/10 [9] |
| PopMatters | 7/10 [10] |
| Tom Hull | B [11] |
Wild Mountain Nation is the third studio album by Blitzen Trapper. The album was honored as "Best New Music" by Pitchfork, receiving a rating of 8.5 out of 10. [9]
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. [12]
