Blitzen Trapper released its third album, Wild Mountain Nation, in 2007 to much acclaim from critics such as Pitchfork Media, The Nerve, and Spin Magazine.
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Blitzen Trapper released its third album, Wild Mountain Nation, in 2007 to much acclaim from critics such as Pitchfork Media, The Nerve, and Spin Magazine.
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Band that would come to be known as Blitzen Trapper began life under the name Garmonbozia in the year 2000.
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On December 2, 2003, the band returned to radio station KPSU and recorded their first live show under the Blitzen Trapper name, playing songs from their first album and previewing some - including "Leopard's Will to Live" and "40 Stripes" - from their next.
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In September 2007, acclaimed indie studio Daytrotter conducted their first interview with Blitzen Trapper and invited the group to perform four acoustic tracks; this was the start of a long relationship between the band and the studio.
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In September 2008, Blitzen Trapper released their first record for Sub Pop records, Furr, to near-universal critical acclaim.
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Club called Furr Blitzen Trapper's "most focused album yet" in its A- review, while Pitchfork gave it another 8.
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Blitzen Trapper was invited by influential rock band Pavement to play the All Tomorrow's Parties festival on May 15, 2010, an invitation Earley later remembered fondly: "We toured with Stephen Malkmus [of Pavement] and he was a big hero of mine in high school, so that was really fun.
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Blitzen Trapper released American Goldwing on September 13, 2011, to mainly positive reviews.
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Blitzen Trapper prepared its seventh studio album, with a somewhat new direction.
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On October 1, 2013, Blitzen Trapper released their seventh album, appropriately titled VII, on Vagrant Records, their first album with a new label since 2008's Furr.
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Rather than release a physical album or an album through media outlets such as iTunes, Blitzen Trapper made Live In Portland downloadable for free, or as a "name your price" download through the website Bandcamp.
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Blitzen Trapper's first new recording of 2016 was a song titled "Summer Rain, " released as part of Amazon's "Sounds of Summer" playlist.
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