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Okay, I know I wrote about loving Pablo Trucker, and I tend to gush about every band being my new favorite band, but the Wrens really are my favorite everything (all the time). Permanently. Along with the Frames, they're at the top of every list I make, every heavy rotation, every top ten, every everything. I could take time and space here to remit stories of epic length and girth about my interactions with them, but I'll spare you.
In short, they're really nice guys, and they fucking rule. And so does this news from Stereogum:
In January, The Lifted Brow, a biannual "50% fiction and 50% everything else" Melbourne-based magazine, is putting out an issue that includes two CDs with exclusive music from Spiral Stairs, the Magnetic Fields' Claudia Gonson, Frightened Rabbit, and Dan Deacon, among others. One of those others is the Wrens, whose "In Turkish Waters" debuts in this week's Drop.
Bring it. Or, moreso: go here and get it. Right fucking now. It's all DIY and deliciousness and new Wrens. NEW WRENS!!!
1 laura musselman said on November 13, 2008
i thought this day would never come!
2 Imaginary Shrie said on November 13, 2008
Ooohhh. LOVE the Wrens. I saw them absolutely plastered and almost unable to play in Denton, TX at Hailey's. Beautiful show.
IGshr*e
3 ChrisB said on November 13, 2008
That's great getting new music from your very favorite band! This is the closest I've gotten to new music from my absolute favoritest band in the whole entire world (and I'm not referring to Pearl Jam).
4 Imaginary Shrie said on November 13, 2008
You know John Doe and Kathleen Edwards are coming next week right? Or were you talking about Sleater Kinney?
IGshr*e
5 ChrisB said on November 13, 2008
I was definitely talking about SK (although I do also like John Doe quite a bit: with The Knitters, X and his solo stuff).
6 randy said on November 16, 2008
Charles Bissell appeared with Okkervil River at Sasquatch this summer. One of the best sets of the festival, in no small part due to his superb guitar playing.
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