Baltimore-based duo, Wye Oak, have shared a video from their new album, Shriek, which dropped yesterday. “Glory”, directed by Michael Patrick O'Leary and Ashley North Compton, plays with choppy editing techniques to give parts of the video an uneasy stop motion feel.
Baltimore duo Wye Oak dropped the first official single off of their upcoming album, Shriek, today. Give the uncharacteristically dancey but no less memorable “Glory” a spin below and look for the album to drop via Merge Records on April 29th.
Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner is releasing her second 7″ single with her Flock of Dimes side
project on Merge Records next month. “Curtain” is the single’s a-side. Wasner
described the lyrics as documenting “the thoughtless, obsessed joy of new
love.” There is a lot going on in the
tune but it all works very well together; the single is limited to 1,000 copies
so get one from Merge while you still can.
Following their acclaimed full length effort Civilian last
year, Baltimore’s Wye Oak have released a new and rather different track then
we are accustomed to hearing from the duo in “Spiral.” Those who have been keeping up with the Oak
know that Jenn Wasner started up a solo project and has contributed a slew of guest appearances on albums by Sharon
Van Etten and Future Islands but it’s been a while since we’ve heard from WyeOak as a group and the somewhat 80’s sounding “Spiral” leaves me wondering if
this is a new sound or a one off experiment?
