Geist

A Thread to Find

one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden

damn

Produced and mixed by John Parish. Engineered by Oliver Baldwin. Recorded at J&J Studio Bristol. Mastered by Jason Mitchell at LOUD Mastering. 

Photography by Tasha Barker.

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Prizefighter

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"Me Person" is a song about our egoistic side. A poem about self centered thoughts we all have but are too embarrassed to admit. In the end we are all just a bunch of selfish assholes. Yes, you are, too!

I need to tell
I need to tell you all the time
About myself
About everything I have in mind
And when you say something
I am not listening
Because your life‘s boring 
And I know that mine is interesting
And when it’s not about me
I lack of empathy
I don’t care what you say
I can’t feel sorry when you’re not okay
I am a me person
I need to see
I need to see you all the time 
Except when I
When I Have something else in mind
And when you notice me
I am not watching you
Because you’re invisible
And I just seem to see right through
So when I get the chance
Under any circumstance
I would see someone else
I only think about myself
I am a me person

ME PERSON

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Every Day Like the Last

supernatural thing

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.

Every Day Like the Last

Wye Oak

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