FOGGY NOTIONS present THE WRENS
Whelan’s, Dublin, Thursday February 15
TICKETS €15 FROM WAV TICKETS [1890 200 078], CITY DISCS & ROAD RECORDS
Special guests Nanobot & The Kimballs
www.myspace.com/nanobotmusic
www.myspace.com/thekimballs
Irish debut for New Jersey-based indie-rock band The Wrens who released legendary album The Meadowlands.
“I keep waiting for the moment when I need to put this away for a while, and it keeps not coming. Instead, four years of takes and tweaks build and cohere--pealing and shifting, wafting and pounding, sinking into babble and soaring into the bright exultant chorus of ‘This Boy Is Exhausted.’ Anybody who can create a record like this deserves more than 13 thou a year. The Meadowlands is a real winner and a magnum opus. Grade: A”
The Village Voice - Robert Christgau
“A meticulously constructed collage of rock tones and an underground sensation on the brink of monster success.” - New York Times – Hugo Lindgren
“In trading the adolescent kick of Secaucus for ripened resignation, meticulous refinement for crippling maturation, they have realized their magnum opus.”
- Pitchfork – Ryan Schreiber
“Picture an all-too-familiar generic indie sound ripped apart, reassembled and brought fantastically to life by a truly individual quartet, (…), Beguiling, affecting, songs are then shot through with noise cloudbursts, psychedelic harmonies, and glissando melodies. The empty meanderings of ‘Hopeless’, irony-heaviness of ‘Happy’ and energetic propulsion of ‘Everyone Chooses Sides’ all confirm The Wrens as the ultimate rare treasure.”
NME – Dele Fadelehttp://www.wrens.com
Whelan’s, Dublin, Thursday February 15
TICKETS €15 FROM WAV TICKETS [1890 200 078], CITY DISCS & ROAD RECORDS
Special guests Nanobot & The Kimballs
www.myspace.com/nanobotmusic
www.myspace.com/thekimballs
Irish debut for New Jersey-based indie-rock band The Wrens who released legendary album The Meadowlands.
“I keep waiting for the moment when I need to put this away for a while, and it keeps not coming. Instead, four years of takes and tweaks build and cohere--pealing and shifting, wafting and pounding, sinking into babble and soaring into the bright exultant chorus of ‘This Boy Is Exhausted.’ Anybody who can create a record like this deserves more than 13 thou a year. The Meadowlands is a real winner and a magnum opus. Grade: A”
The Village Voice - Robert Christgau
“A meticulously constructed collage of rock tones and an underground sensation on the brink of monster success.” - New York Times – Hugo Lindgren
“In trading the adolescent kick of Secaucus for ripened resignation, meticulous refinement for crippling maturation, they have realized their magnum opus.”
- Pitchfork – Ryan Schreiber
“Picture an all-too-familiar generic indie sound ripped apart, reassembled and brought fantastically to life by a truly individual quartet, (…), Beguiling, affecting, songs are then shot through with noise cloudbursts, psychedelic harmonies, and glissando melodies. The empty meanderings of ‘Hopeless’, irony-heaviness of ‘Happy’ and energetic propulsion of ‘Everyone Chooses Sides’ all confirm The Wrens as the ultimate rare treasure.”
NME – Dele Fadelehttp://www.wrens.com
