Named for the motorcycle that nearly crushed frontman Eric Earley as a child, American Goldwing is Blitzen Trapper's third release on Sub Pop and their most introspective and impressive. The album fluidly navigates the tenuous lines between love and loss via a power language of heavy guitar riffs and blasting drum fills that intertwine darkly with plucked banjo, wailing harmonica, and muddy steel guitar.
