Wye Oak - The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs (2018)
Wye Oak - The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs (2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 00:38:28 | 265 Mb
Indie Pop, Female Vocal | Label: Merge Records
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 00:38:28 | 265 Mb
Indie Pop, Female Vocal | Label: Merge Records
Recording in the duo’s respective hometowns yields Wye Oak’s brightest, most straightforward effort yet, in which the limits of human understanding are a source of fascination, not frustration.Tracklist:
Wye Oak’s 2011 album Civilian was a major inflection point for the band. Supporting the record brought the Baltimore duo of Andy Stack and Jenn Wasner across oceans, onto “The Tonight Show,” and into the arsenal of Hollywood music supervisors. By the end of the year, after wringing every possible variation out of their setlist, they were spent. “I feel like our band is going to change very, very drastically from here on out in order to remain vital to us,” Wasner noted in an interview with the Village Voice. And so they did, situationally and stylistically. Stack moved to the artistic enclave of Marfa, Texas, and then on to Portland, Oregon. At the same time, Wasner set her guitar aside as she worked on her throwback chirp-pop project Dungeonesse; the results were sufficiently freeing that Wye Oak’s 2014 follow-up, Shriek, eschewed the six-string almost entirely.
This is a standard narrative: a band that has to evolve or die. But more than that, it’s the story of trying to maintain relationships as adulthood scatters everyone to the winds. In order to make Shriek, Stack and Wasner passed demos back and forth. This time, they opted for a series of home/away dates, alternating weeks recording in Marfa (to which Stack returned after Shriek) and Durham, North Carolina (Wasner’s home since 2015). The strategy forced more direct collaboration, as well as a spirit of first-thought-best-thought. The result is The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs, which, for all its weight, has the particular giddiness of conspirators reuniting.
Pound for pound, The Louder I Call is Wye Oak’s brightest, most straightforward effort. Like the best of 2016’s retooled outtakes set, Tween, it fuses the dream pop of the band’s middle period to galvanic backbeats. On a number of tracks, synth ostinatos provide the connective tissue between Stack’s machine-tooled timekeeping and Wasner’s array of guitar daubs and squalls. The duo is urgent yet unhurried. On the pan-happy “Say Hello,” Wasner’s higher register—a doodle of strange skywriting over the buzz—recalls Cocteau Twins’ Liz Fraser. “Five hundred aerial miles to go,” she sings before dipping some desperately gorgeous howls into the serration of her guitar. On “It Was Not Natural,” the popping bassline—the foundation of so much of Shriek—returns the band to earth. Wasner takes a walk, overturns a strange object with her foot. “It was not natural/All along,” she decides over synth twinkle and piano thud, “Only human hands/Could give us/Something so unforgiving.”
As if to prove the point, they follow “It Was Not Natural” with “Symmetry,” a bassy, doomy St. Vincent homage, right down to the screen paranoia (“The accident/To video/Awareness in the afterglow”) and the broken-modem crackle of the solo. It’s as blunt as the group gets. Doggedly allusive in their early years, they have settled for merely elliptical: the quick-fire thoughts of born observers. “I fear we speak a broken language,” goes a line on “Over and Over,” as Stack keeps chopping into an oompah beat. That’s generally how it goes here: Wye Oak puzzle over the limits of understanding, but their compositions treat the mystery as a source of fascination rather than frustration. “I believed that life could be better,” Wasner sighs on “Lifer,” just before uncorking a ragged solo that gently chides her belief.
Wasner has described the album’s title as “sort of psychological litmus test,” one which revealed the band members’ varying levels of acidity. Wasner envisioned “it” as a sort of approaching menace; Stack interpreted it as receding hope. Those ideas aren’t entirely in tension: either way, something is about to be lost. It could be peace, or comprehension. It could be connection. “My people are all over/Spread out and thin,” Wasner croons midway through the album, on the string-quartet-backed tone poem “My Signal.” “I’m watching them/And we may never breathe the same air again.” But I can’t discern any regret, only reverie: It’s just another note shared by two old friends across the intervening miles.
01. (Tuning)
02. The Instrument
03. The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs
04. Lifer
05. It Was Not Natural
06. Symmetry
07. My Signal
08. Say Hello
09. Over And Over
10. You Of All People
11. Join
12. I Know It’s Real
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