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.

Now releasing music as @Benyayer 

Live / DJ bookings: info@bnyr.net

www.bnyr.net

mgmt - www.heartfeltmanagement.com

Booking Live or Dj Set : leo@azimuthprod.com 

Releases on : Born Bad records / Evrlst.inc / Correspondant / Astro Lab Recordings / Höga Nord Rekords

Pareille à la moiteur qui perle de la paroi d’un frigo entrouvert, telle la
lumière persistant sur une rétine plongée dans le noir, la musique de 
VoX LoW attrape le dancefloor là où il s’y attend le moins. 
Par les cheveux de sa culture électrique, agrippée aux chevilles des ravers, la main au cul de la new wave avec un baise-main au krautrock. 
(Alcaline Jukeboxbabe)

Past and Upcoming Gigs 2019 :

08/02 : Le Trampolino (Nantes / FR) : LIVE
21/03 : La Java (Paris / FR) : Dj Set 
22/03 : Dispute Magazine (Paris / FR) : Dj Set
02/05 : Rössli Bar (Berne / CH) : LIVE
03/05 : Les Caves du Manoir (Martigny / CH) : LIVE
04/05 : Le Poulpe (Reignier / FR) : LIVE
10/05 : La Maroquinerie / Gonzai night (Paris / FR) : LIVE
25/05 : Alfresco Festival (Paddock Wood / UK) : LIVE
29/05 : Atabal (Biarritz / FR) : LIVE
13/06 : Héron Carré (Angers / FR) : LIVE
14/06 : Trabendo (Paris / FR) : LIVE
26/06 : Biennale de Theatre (Mannheim / ALL) : LIVE
28/06 : IndieRocketFestival (Pescara / IT) : Dj Set B2B Cosmic Nemam
13/07 : Kliko Festival (Haarlem / NLD) : LIVE
02/08 : Tentaclub 2 au Petit Bain (Paris / FR ) : DJ SET 
09/08 : Lethargy Festival (Zurich / CH) : LIVE
07/09 : El Cep Festival (Nantes / FR) : LIVE
14/09 : La Grenze (Strasbourg / FR) : LIVE
04/10 : Ellipse Festival (Toulouse / FR) : LIVE


Gigs 2018 :

12/18 : Festival Les Aventuriers (Fontenay / FR) : LIVE
12/01 : La Vapeur (Dijon / FR) : LIVE
11/17 : Razzmatazz (Barcelone / ESP) : LIVE
10/20 : Brise Glace (Annecy / FR) : LIVE
10/18 : Badaboum (Paris / FR) : LIVE
10/13 : Festival Acce(s) (Pau / FR) : DJ set 
10/07 : The Long Sunday (Arles / FR) : LIVE
10/06 : Rouxteur Festival (St Ouen / FR) : Dj set + live Bass
09/29 : Anniversaire iBoat (Bordeaux / FR) : LIVE
09/07 : Festival Jour & Nuit (Grenoble / FR) : LIVE
09/01 : Paris Psych Fest (Paris / FR) : LIVE
08/24 : Terra Incognita Festival (Laval / FR) : LIVE
08/04 : Voyage Voyage at Renate (Berlin / DE) : LIVE
07/08 : Festival Terres du Son (Monts / FR) : LIVE
06/30 : Macki Festival (Carrières-sur-seine / FR) : LIVE
06/09 : Nuits Fauves (Paris / FR) : DJ SET + live BASS
06/07 : La Nef (Angoulême / FR) : LIVE
05/26 : Shapes Festival (Sandefjord / NO ) : LIVE
05/11 : Ombra Festival (Barcelone / ESP) : LIVE
05/10 : Festival Nuits Sonores (Lyon / FR) : LIVE
05/09 : My Life is a Week End (Montpellier / FR) : LIVE
05/08 : Le Nouveau Rendez-vous France Inter (Paris / FR) : LIVE
04/07 : KulturA. (Liege / BEL ) : LIVE
04/06 : Atelier 210 (Bruxelles / BEL) : LIVE
03/30 : PZZLE Festival (Lille / FR) : LIVE
03/17 : Our album release party at La Station (Paris / FR) : LIVE + guests
03/17 : Continent Musique France Culture (Paris / FR) : LIVE
03/10 : Part a Part Festival (Istanbul / TR) : LIVE
03/03 : Shapes Festival (Leysin / CH) : LIVE
02/22 : La Route du Rock Hiver (Rennes / FR) : LIVE

Producer from Almería (Spain)
Co-owner of Waste Editions
Booking: marta@copyleftbcn.com

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