It's now nearly 6 years since The Wrens released The Meadowlands and up until recently the New Jersey 4-piece have shown few signs of producing a follow up to an album which since my discovery of it has caused me to log enough travelling miles to circumnavigate the globe at least once to see the band play (as well as indirectly resulting in me getting into what was and to date has still been the most significant relationship of my life). Work has apparently finally begun on the follow up and a number of demos for new tunes have cropped up here and there online, though mostly on the website of Magnet Magazine who are maintaining a weekly "Wrens Watch" whereby every 7 days they ring up guitarist/singer Charles Bissell (nee: Mexico) and he tries to come up with a fresh excuse as to why the band still haven't made a new record.
Up till now all the new material emerging has been coming from bassist/keyboardist/singer Kevin Whelan and I think that I've previously put up some of those songs here but just this week Bissell put down the new baby boy (that was one of the more commonly used excuses) and wrote a new song, his first he claims, in many years. It's called "The Thousand Dos" and I'm putting it up along with a couple of other demos just because they were there on the same page that I found the Bissell song on. Also becasue I think that "Marked Up" songs like The Beatles, and not in the bad way that almost all of Pugwash's songs sound like The Beatles.
MP3: The Wrens - Z Kevin Whelan demo
MP3: The Wrens - Marked Up Kevin Whelan demo
Mp3: The Wrens - The Thousand Dos Charles Bissell demo
Thursday, July 9, 2009
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