HOUND presents...
Artist.......: Wand
Album........: Plum
Label........: Drag City
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: DC-673CD
Source.......: CD
Rip.date.....: 2017-10-05
Str.date.....: 2017-09-22
Quality......: 795kbps/44.1kHz/2 channels
Url..........: http://dragcity.com
track title time
1. Setting 1:00
2. Plum 4:16
3. Bee Karma 3:55
4. Charles De Gaulle 4:17
5. High Rise 2:43
6. White Cat 4:14
7. The Trap 4:44
8. Ginger 2:10
9. Blue Cloud 7:50
10. Driving 7:06
Runtime 42:15
Size 261.87
Release Notes:
Los Angeles-based garage fuzz quartet Wand formed in 2013, pulling together
guitarist/vocalist Cory Hanson, drummer Evan Burrows, guitarist Daniel Martens,
and bassist Lee Landey as purveyors of sludgy, psychedelic garage rock. They
quickly put together an abundance of material that straddled the line between
melodic and noise-heavy, issuing split singles with artists like Mikal Cronin
and Meatbodies before being signed by Ty Segall to his Drag City spinoff label
God? for the release of their 2014 debut LP, Ganglion Reef. Wand embarked on a
tour supporting Segall for the release of the album. The band's next album was
recorded over a 12-day span by Chris Woodhouse at The Dock in Sacramento,
California, and saw the band expanding its sound with synthesizers and showing a
deeper heavy metal influence. Golem was released in early 2015 by In the Red
Records. Not a band to waste any time, Wand returned before the end of the year
with their third album, 1000 Days. Released by Drag City proper this time, the
album saw Wand incorporating more electronics into their sound, while
integrating their metal and psych elements even further.
They also toured frequently, playing many shows with Ty Segall, who was
impressed enough to subsequently play a number of shows with Hanson as an
acoustic duo. He also added Hanson and Burrows to his backing band the Muggers
for his 2016 touring dates. Thanks to this, Wand was uncharacteristically quiet
on the recording front during 2016, with Hanson spending time working on a solo
album. The acid folk-inspired, lushly orchestrated The Unborn Capitalist from
Limbo was released by Drag City in late 2016. Around that time, Wand expanded
their lineup by adding guitarist Robbie Cody and keyboardist/vocalist Sofia
Arreguin. This also led to a change in the way the band wrote songs. Where
previously Hanson brought finished songs to the rest of the group, now they
spent time in their rehearsal space working out songs together. This new style
of writing and the new members led to some sonic differences on their 2017
record, Plum, on which the creepy, claustrophobic psychedelia and bludgeoning
metal of the past were downplayed in favor of classic rock influences and more
expansive-sounding indie rock. ~ Fred Thomas
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