Fairy Grunge by @to_b_or

A dark pixie mixing her 90s dreams with her nightmare screams, swallowing the world one microphone at a time.

band:sisterslumber@gmail.com
manager:jh@machinemanagement.co.uk
agent:  joanna@codaagency.com

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.

The girl with the most cake
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Lead singer, guitarist and songwriter of @meorchids

Bat and Ball present their debut album, Genuine Skin.

A thematic encapsulation of the intimate musings upon which Abi Sinclair, Chris Sinclair and Harri Chambers have made their name so far. The 12-track collection sees the London-based three piece tread the line between tongue-in-check and heart-on-sleeve in their frank assessment of feminism, gender, love and self-worth.

The LP is wrought with emotive subversion. From the exploration of self-esteem and disillusionment within ‘Fortune’ and ‘Worth’, to the narcissism and objectification laced into ‘All The Sugar’ and ‘Be Mine’, Bat & Ball weave both wistful fantasy and stark reality into a refreshingly complex narrative.

All tracks recorded and mastered by Moshik Kop at NXNE Studios, London.

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