The Wrens: New Song, Recording New Album
The Wrens have a new website, and new song (!), are playing SXSW (!!), and will start recording a new album next Monday (!!!). SAH-WEET. They wrote on their new site about it all:
The new song “Pulled Fences”:
Secondly, we have a new song just released last Thursday, “Pulled Fences”, that we recorded live at Abbey Road studios…“Pulled Fences” marks it’s own anniversary for us – the first time in 10 years that the four of us were in one room working on new music together…
The recording itself was also something of a low-wire act in that it’s a song of Kev’s that none of the rest of us had ever heard or played before (read more about that here). So what you hear on the single is us – also hearing the song for the first time – trying to fake-up some coherent parts while scrutinizing chords scribbled on notepaper like unprepared schoolchildren on test day, all while wearing ill-fitting – yet stylish – headphones.
The new album:
Lastly, about that next album…all this stuff – the single, the site, the new bowlcuts – is a way for us to kick off making new music. And with all the work we’ve done behind-the-scenes in the last couple of years to change & streamline how we go about doing the poopoo that we do, there should be plenty of it. Stress ‘should’. But Kev has already demo’ed over 100 songs since we showed him that microphones are “like your ears, Kevin” last summer.
So all that’s the typically long-butted way of saying that a week from Monday – that’s the 19th – we reconvene in the basement and start recording music to follow-up the Meadowlands.
What a great way to celebrate their 20th anniversary together. Can. Not. Wait.
The Wrens – Everyone Chooses Sides (MP3)
(thanks to BV for the heads up)
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on January 23rd, 2009 at 5:51 pm