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For The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs, Wye Oak's Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack flew to one another's cities - she in Durham, NC, he in Marfa, TX - for a week or so at a time, hunkering in home studios to sort through and combine their separate song sketches. These shorter stints together produced less second-guessing and hesitation in their process, yielding an unabashed and unapologetic Wye Oak. They discarded past rules about how to write a record, instead funneling all those experiences and experiments into perfectly unified statements. The result is the biggest, broadest, boldest music Wye Oak has ever made. Louder... pursues a litany of modern malaises, each of it's 12 tracks diligently addressing a new conflict and pinning it against walls of sound, with the song's subject and shape inextricably and ingeniously linked. It arrives at a time of immense doubt, when our personal problems are infinitely compounded by a world that seems in existential peril. But these songs answer the challenge by radiating self-reflection and resolve, wielding hooks and musical intricacy as a shield against the madness of the moment.
CONDITION: NEW
TRACK LISTING
1 (Tuning) 0:37
2 The Instrument 3:21
3 The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs 4:23
4 Lifer 3:32
5 It Was Not Natural 4:05
6 Symmetry 4:06
7 My Signal
1:36
8 Say Hello 3:44
9 Over And Over 2:54
10 You Of All People
3:55
11 Join
2:55
12 I Know It's Real 3:20
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