Stretch Out

Shriek: Variations

Logic of Color (Variation) [feat. William Brittelle]

Wide open, horses

Common People

Day and Night

Lorde - A World Alone (philanddiego Remix)

Stayed awake ‘till the sun rose 
Isn’t that how it goes
When you’re stuck deep in a heartbreak?
I always open my windows 
I breathe in that October cold 
Something ‘bout this time of year takes me away

I’ll be alone this Christmas, it’s fine by me 
I tend to buy myself anything I need 
Maybe I’ll take a chance at curiosity 
Maybe I’ll try something twisted 
October’s hitting different

I’ll stay up, watch my favorite shows 
Without your snarky nose 
Always rollin’ in smoke, smothering me 
I’ll sit with my thoughts alone 
I’ll really think about the mother-roll
That you wanted me to play to satisfy your needs

I bet you’re sitting there wishing that I were weak 
Crawling back to you, well only in your dreams, baby 
Maybe I’ll take a chance at curiosity 
Maybe I’ll write something twisted 
October’s hitting different

Dress up as your own personal bitchin’ machine 
All I ever did was try to give you everything you need 
Oh, how I hate this time of year it gets so damn lonely 
But I love it just the same 
Autumn air has seen worse things

I’ll fall asleep when the sun grows 
Into the sky where my love erodes 
Reset my nervous system back in place

Twisted October (Demo)

Dirt

Terms of Surrender

I Need a Teacher

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.