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Mend

ChinChin EP

Kings & Queens

Summer Of Love

Summer Of Love - Mark Diamond & Matt Hartke

Piano & Voice

Some Loud Thunder (Piano & Voice)

STARFISH*

Breathe

Dreamin' / Finally

Dreamin'

In The Void

SIEMPRE ME FALTAS TU

Tearing at the Seams

You Worry Me

The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs

Say Hello

Crown City Rockers - Break (short Ver.)

California

Beasts - With - No - Name - Stole - My - Heart

Summer is the heart-wrenching second instalment to 'Mirrors', inviting you into a failed love story. The thematic nostalgia of summertime, abrasively twisted into an impending breakup narrative. 

"I was moving cities, and we both know we'd be leaving behind what we had. I wanted to see it through - right til the end. Even though it was stupidly uncomfortable knowing that we won't last. 'Summer' is that feeling; a world coming to an end."

Summer

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.

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Wye Oak

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