WEDNESDAY – twin plagues (LP Vinyl)

Vinylrepress des 2021er- Album des Bandprojekts der virtuosen Sängerin und Gitarristin Karly Hartzman aus North Carolina. Ein mit sonic Guitars und klasse Melodien aufwartendes Album in ähnlichem Fahrwasser wie Snail Mail und Soccer Mommy mit einem tiefen Griff in die 90s-Indierock-Ästhetik-Trickkiste. "If you stumble onto this album, I promise you the songs will be what grab you first, beyond any of my foolish high-level emotional theorizing or projections. Every band that loves the pursuit of their craft the way this band does is one to follow, because getting to sit on the sidelines and watch them level up is a real generosity. The record is overflowing with hooks, but what most delighted me about the band from the start has taken a leap: they have managed, somehow, to get even better at structuring their noise from one movement of a song to the next. The idea of the "song" itself is flexible in their hands, so much so that each song holds two, or three songs within. This, again, generosity. It keeps offering and offering and offering. Everything has a place, and so much of its place is to serve the true heart of this album, which is allowing cracks through which tenderness can enter and exit as needed. Tenderness that, it seems to me, is always wrestling underneath whatever else might be happening on a song's surface." - Hanif Abdurraqib *Dead Oceans