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Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack of Wye Oak have spent most of their lives in Baltimore, Maryland. But after two years of constant touring with Civilian, their highly lauded 2011 album, they landed on opposite sides of the country with an unforeseeable future ahead. Despite this newfound uncertainty, the two bandmates embraced their physical distance, passing ideas back and forth, allowing new work to evolve in their respective solitudes. Shriek is Wye Oak’s fourth full-length and the culmination of their intent to express the emotional and intuitive self by acting out animalistic exclamations through cathartic release. It is their most personal and confident declaration yet.

Newly inspired by playing bass, Jenn took up songwriting in a setting where the guitar did not dictate harmonic boundaries or require a call-and-response relationship with her voice, a hallmark of previous Wye Oak records. With her phrasing freed, now it is often Andy who interacts with Jenn’s vocals, playing syncopated and meditative keyboard parts, and the duo’s collaborative arrangements provide a backdrop in which both the arcs of melodies and the new rhythmic elements flourish.

To engineer, mix, and co-produce, they brought in Nicolas Vernhes of the Rare Book Room in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, whose inventive and forward-thinking approaches to production complemented their new direction. The result is a record of indisputable humanity. Shriek is a complete narrative of disorientation, loss, renewal, and empowerment.

A seasoned singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and performer, Ayo has toured the world and shared the stage with or opened for artists such as Chris Martin (of Coldplay), The Chainsmokers, Seun Kuti, Robert Plant, Richie Havens, Peter Eldridge (of the NY Voices), and members of Tower of Power. She is currently a background singer for Miley Cyrus and has performed on The Today's Show, The Tonight Show, and The Voice, as well as the UK's top music TV show, Later...with Jools Holland.

A Berklee College of Music graduate, Ayo is a passionate educator with 9+ years of teaching experience. She has created and curated a number of masterclasses and voice curriculum for several different private music schools in the US and also has a roster of students across the country. 

She will soon be starting a music academy of her own, and in an effort to pay homage to her Nigerian heritage and love of working with youth, just founded an organization that works with young Nigerian women to provide long term tools and resources. Her first full length album (released 2015) was produced by Grammy Award winning producer, Scott Jacoby (Sia, John Legend) featuring a host of incredible musicians including Cory Henry of Snarky Puppy.

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