The Wrens, who’ve been recording their Meadowlands follow-up (for real this time) for the past couple months (years?), took to facebook to unleash some gems such as “we’re finishing up a total of 21 songs” and “91:48 minutes of music (not a misprint)”. Great news! Now it seems their question is whether to go M83 style and create a double-album opus, or milk that creative output for 2 different albums. Full post below:
Some news on the record – with whether it’s good or bad depending on how comfortable your headphones are.
Finally went and lined up all the songs pending for the next record(s) in their various near-finished states and even already knowing the count was high, the results are sorta bonkers, for us at least.
Even with a pretty big reject pile, we’re finishing up a total of 21 songs (w/ a couple extra bits in there), currently totaling a wren-warping 91:48 minutes of music (not a misprint) depending on a few pending edits.
How do you get metrics like that? By having five of ‘em clock in at over seven minutes. Naturally.
Hmmm…double record or two separate, double record or two separate…what a dumb quandary.
Hard to resist doing a double if it’s, well, do-able. At the same time, the notion of being most of the way done the album that’s ‘after’ this next album – and for once in my sad muzakly life being finished even the tiniest work ahead of time – is almost irresistible.
Stay tuned – probably for when we send the “it’s now over 200 minutes or modal jazz” email (Winter 2014)…
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