subtle! frisky! exquisitely of one´s own!

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and that´s more than noteworthy ladies and gentlemen!

as i told with previous post before - somewhere glimmering at retral spotlight of genre outriders sonic youth - "holy holy" weaves a high-melodious net with its massive positioned guitar hookline alongside jenn wasner`s voice appears almost sheepish.

an initial step by step winding and majestic growing "hot as day" takes a similar line, which is consistently intermitted by stirring feedback-breaks and thus anticipates the "civilian"-effect yet.

with "that i do" accentuate jenn and andy their exquisite keen sense for subtle and frisky tremendous own melodies that an eerily formidable baltimore-duo here have recorded.

by the way...
upcoming stop in munich, atomic café: 11.06.2011


last but not least a very pure marked down acoustic attachment of past-described song "take it in".

Wye Oak - Parking Lot Video from Merge Records on Vimeo.

Live on Radio K: Wye Oak - "Hot as Day" from Radio K on Vimeo.

Wye Oak performs Holy Holy at The Rock Shop, Brooklyn from BlearyEyedBrooklyn.com on Vimeo.

Wye Oak - That I Do - Luxury Wafers Sessions from Luxury Wafers on Vimeo.

wye oak? damn! why actually not...

"civilian"

by
wye oak

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it seems with their 3rd album any penny has been dropped - by this unconventional operating duo from baltimore that actuate a special kind of electrifying and distortive folk reduced to a minimum. and the excellent reputation of these two eccentric persons as frontier runners between noise-attacks and welfare melodious shiver has already been perseding them in music scene circles.

wye oak`s music seems in essence rather measured, indeed drifting towards noise-pop time and time again. a little shimmered with an organ here and an electronic effect there accompanied by a stoical beat, at times blustery, dissonant clamorous like sonic youth, but mostly melancholic pending. that obscure congenial combination between andy stack`s virtuosic right-handed drum-kit - while his left hand creates some bass-melodies on a keyboard - and jenn wasner`s restrained vocals let wye oak being an angelic music experience. jenn s dark-pigmented voice seems adequate for a particular form of music with all its frowning promise and an everlasting anxious bubbling under an exhausting even-tempered unexpended surface.

there is this magic moment one minute before "civilian" ends: the guitar - it previously has already pulled at shackles several times - explodes formal in the background, melts in an all illuminating feedback loop, everything is infernal blatant, all senses deafening, dangerous on the abyss swaying, wunderful and agitating at the same time. "civilian" is the the title piece and meaningful song par excellence!

a second track worthy of mention including following primary lyrical exciting context is called "take it in" from earlier "the knot lp" anno 2009. it is that type of denied perfection what makes the band quite unique and interesting.

half the day away
half again asleep
i am left alone
with dreams
i wouldn’t care if i
i wouldn't carry you
is it still a lie
if it’s true

do you never ask
because i’ll never tell
we are both the same
unwell
but how much would you ask
and what did you expect
of what it is that we
have left
(...)

Flock of Dimes (Jenn Wasner of Wye Oak) performs at Glasslands Gallery, Brooklyn from BlearyEyedBrooklyn.com on Vimeo.