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Wye Oak (Merge Records)+ Callers (Western Vinyl Records)+ Sleepy Seeds
Wye Oak wrote what became Civilian between December of 2009 and July of 2010. The songs "are, as a whole, about aloneness (the positive kind), loneliness (the horrible kind), moving on, and letting go (of people, places, and things)," lyricist/guitarist Jenn Wasner reveals.
After recording and mixing the previous two albums themselves, Wye Oak brought in mixing engineer John Congleton (St. Vincent, Shearwater), who played a pivotal role in the sound of
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Civilian. âÂÂJC definitely pushed us into some exciting and sometimes scary new territory,â multi-instrumentalist Andy Stack says. âÂÂIt was the most that Jenn and I had ever relinquished control of our music to someone else, but it gave us a chance to step back and see the big picture, whereas on previous recordings we got embroiled in the technical details.âÂÂ
Civilian is a kind of 21st-century folk music, imbued with dense shoegaze guitars, nearly melodic rhythms, and impeccable splashes of electronic color. Without leaning on conventional structure, the songs beguile with fascinating chords and melodies, JennâÂÂs voice and riveting lyrics, mesmerizing rhythms, and an intoxicating aural landscape. Just as good writing has meaning between the lines, Civilian has meaning between the sounds: the combinations of harmonies, timbres, and words summon vivid and ineffable associations just beyond reach.
Jenn sums up the meaning of the album saying, âÂÂthis collection of songs is called Civilian because I believe everyone wants to be normal, but no one truly is.âÂÂ
Wye Oak is Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack.
from http://www.mergerecords.com/presskits/MRG400/
Ryan and Sara met Don at a show at Melvin's, a bar on St. Claude in the Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans. Ryan and Sara had just begun writing and recording songs together on an old 4-track with a mic hanging from the blade of a ceiling fan in the middle of that stifling sweaty summer, but they would soon part ways and leave New Orleans. Over the next couple of years they relocated to Providence together and later settled in Brooklyn where Don had also settled after Katrina.
http://westernvinyl.com/artists/callers.html
All Ages, doors 7:30pm, show at 8pm
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LocationFlying M
1314 2nd st. S
Nampa, ID
United States
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