Indie 2021 4th Quarter

Animal Fat

Tunnels

Lyrics and Music by Holden Laurence

Holden Laurence: Bass / Guitars / Synths / Vocals 
Mark Soriano: Drums

© 2021 Holden Laurence
℗ 2021 Romantic Americana Publishing (ASCAP)

Produced by Holden Laurence
Mixed by Shane Olivo at Shane Olivo Audio 
Mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music
Artwork by Matthew Childers

Floating, Drifting

Cut All the Wires: 2009–2011

Half a Double Man

What Next?

Restore Us

Pastel Concrete

Trouble

Intruder

House

As Far Away As Possible

First Day

gonna take this down when i feel like it 

Lyrics

I got these parasocial feelings 
yeah they talk to me

i finally found i girl around me 
that is just like me 

she did my hair and then she told me
il be everything

and then we went on with our movie
that was fine by me 

what is she talkin about 
yes im a stalker 

what is she talking about 
yes ima stalk her


all credits go to @helenimsorry and @menthol100s

some helen remix i did because i was bored and couldn't find any beats

Playing The Part is written about how I always try to give people the benefit of the doubt and come up with reasons for why they are being bad people. I guess I should learn to notice the signs earlier. Bad people keep on doing bad things. Always best to read the signs as they come about and address the issues when they arise rather than sweep them under the rug and hope they are something that they aren’t.

A Place To Bury Strangers - Playing The Part

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.

Half a Double Man

Wye Oak

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