Wild Mountain Nation

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.[2]

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]

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]