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From 'No Island' (12XU 134-1), out 4/29/22

Winged Wheel is made up of four musicians whose worlds have intersected for years without them ever all being in the same room. Cory Plump (Spray Paint, Expensive Shit), Whitney Johnson (Matchess, Damiana), Fred Thomas (Tyvek, Idle Ray), and Matthew Rolin (Powers/Rolin Duo, solo) have been longtime participants in various d.i.y. communities, crossing each others’ paths through shared gigs, working on releases, or taking the stage at Cory's small upstate NY bar. Each player has developed their own personal practice of improvisation and home-recording, and Winged Wheel began by chance when Cory asked Fred to send over some rawly-recorded drum loops to jam over. Cory tracked rangy guitar and bass parts over these repetitive loops and songs slowly started taking shape. Matthew's guitar layers took these foundations to a whole new level, and Whitney's submerged vocal tracks solidified everything, elevating the project from a soup of partially formed ideas into something intelligible. The entire album was written, recorded, and mixed in remote collaboration, eventually turning into a balancing act of precisely arranging sonic details and maintaining the formless excitement the music began as. This paradoxical process can be heard in the final form of the album, a continuous zone that manages to be strange and amorphous while still carving out space for four distinctive musical personalities. It’s a sound that hovers and stumbles as often as it takes declarative turns in unexpected directions, the circles getting smaller the closer you zoom in.

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Winged Wheel - Monsella

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We Don't Talk

Recorded at Home in New Brunswick, NJ and The Shed in Hamilton, ON 

Produced by Ryan Hemsworth 
Mixed by Ryan Hemsworth 
Mastered by Ryan Schwabe

Shalom Obisie-Orlu: Vocals
Ryan Hemsworth: Guitar, Bass, Synthesizer, Drum Programming

Written by Dave Bayley
Originally performed by Glass Animals

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Bad To The Bone / Agnes

Agnes

Kelly Hanlon- Vox/Guitars
Owen Dengate- Guitars/Vox
Cameron Smith- Vox/Drums/Keys

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Cameron Smith at Incremental Records

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