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WAND – ” Laughing Matter “

Posted: February 10, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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A little less than two years on from Wands 2017’s album Plum, Californian scrap polymorphs Wand are prepared to announce their newest, and fifth long playing record, title “Laughing Matter”. By now, Wand is the shifting but unmistakable collaboration between Sofia Arreguin (keys, vocals), Cory Hanson (guitar, vocals), Robert Cody (guitar), Lee Landey (bass) and Evan Burrows (drums).

Laughing Matter is marked by the confidence and fervor of a band that has lived, feuded, thrived and grown together through years of dedicated jamming, touring and recording, across continents and mind-sets. The music of Laughing Matter is distilled and sculpted from an ash heap of collected improvisations, riven with audio-verite; the methods and instrumentation are traditional handmade rock ‘n’ roll. Yet the unorthodox arrangements and exuberant songwriting of the first single, “Scarecrow” push Wand into new territory aimed toward the future sound of the band!Laughing Matter is a record about love in a time of terror; it calls you down from panic room labyrinths, to work the deep tissue of unraveling trauma we all carry so dear. The 15 songs on this record face their energy outward, to take with you through a common world that can’t suffer its human abusers much longer. Laughing Matter encourages you to shake hands with your old demons, to lay your pathologies to rest, to hold your spirit close, and let your body do what’s next.

Listen, watch and take in the new single, Track from “Laughing Matter,” available on 2xLP/CS/CD from Drag City on April 19th, 2019.

WAND – ” Laughing Matter “

Posted: February 6, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Wand Announce New Album <i>Laughing Matter</i>, Share Lead Single "Scarecrow"

Los Angeles psych-rockers Wand have announced the follow-up to their 2017 album Plum and 2018 EP Perfume. Their new album, Laughing Matter, will be released on April 19th via Drag City Records, they’ve shared the first single, “Scarecrow,” with an accompanying video directed by Gordon De Los Santos.

“Scarecrow” picks up where the understated psychedelics of Perfume left off with its rippling guitar line, downtempo rhythms, sparse piano and frontman Cory Hanson’s benevolent coo. Wand have always excelled at pretty, somber ballads, so if they decide to fill out the rest of their LP with a similarly quiet and majestic take on their transcendent sound, it should make for a soothing listen.

According to their Bandcamp page, “Laughing Matter offers bits of fuzzy parable, travel diary, pep talk and lullaby, amid a joyous, eclectic sense of pastiche and ascendant choruses. Wand form new music from the ashes of a world that can no longer suffer its human abusers, to inspire us to hold the spirit close and do what’s next.”

Listen to “Scarecrow” check out the Laughing Matter album artwork . You can preorder Laughing Matter on double LP, CD, cassette or MP3 via Drag City Records.

WAND – ” Perfume “

Posted: April 18, 2018 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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You may now listen to “Perfume”, the latest single off our “Perfume EP”. Perhaps you’ve heard us play it live the last couple of tours and been like “what the heck iz that song?” well now you know!
Smells like 30 new minutes of new music via seven new electric hues, shocks of light that flagrantly provoke the dark, a posy’s clutch of purple, fuchsia, green and snowy white that curl against the stench of plague. With “Perfume”, Wand presents olfactory events that recall futures and pasts.
releases May 25th, 2018
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WAND – ” Perfume “

Posted: February 27, 2018 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Smells like 30 new minutes of new music via seven new electric hues, shocks of light that flagrantly provoke the dark, a posy’s clutch of purple, fuchsia, green and snowy white that curl against the stench of plague. With “Perfume”, Wand presents olfactory events that recall futures and pasts.
If the emblem of Wand‘s Plum was the stark blue cloud – a condensation, a linking between longing molecules, data hungering for more data, a flotilla of vapor between eye and sky – then Wand‘s new EP reeks of something more forceful, more seductive, more intoxicating, more insidious: this is “Perfume.”
Here are seven electric hues, shocks of light that flagrantly provoke the dark, a posy’s clutch of purple, fuchsia, green and snowy white that curl against a stench of plague. Recorded between tours and fire seasons in Grass Valley, CA by Tim Green, Perfume‘s potent, expansive tunes were mixed in Woodstock, NY by Daniel James Goodwin. The band features Sofia Arreguin, Evan Burrows,Robbie Cody, Cory Hanson and Lee Landey.
releases May 25th, 2018

WAND – ” Blue Cloud “

Posted: September 8, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Kicking it off (like they won the toss) is Wand, whose Next Album has been eagerly anticipated probably since right after their last one came out. Remember, when 1000 Days hit way back in the summer of 2015, it was the third Wand record to appear in a calendar year! Back then, if you didn’t like what Wand was doing, just wait a month and they’d announce another one.

A length of two “whole” years later (with, sure, time carved out for Cory Hanson‘s stellar solo set, The Unborn Capitalist From Limbo), Wand are back and with songs like “Plum” and “Bee Karma”, this new-phase sounds right promising! Since we of course have heard even more than those two (yes, awesome) songs, we can confirm .

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The new quintet version of Wand seems to have even more up their sleeves than the former crew – but really, it’s just different stuff up those sleeves and probably different sleeves too. With the addition of a designated keyboard player and a second guitarist, the core Wand members now find themselves in an ever-expanding palette – just the way Wand likes to fly! Plum is rich and sumptuous, spun with dense webs of sound and stasis, mélange and melody, as Wand push farther into the strangeness of uncharted territory while also locking it down as a class-act modern pop outfit! To frost the cake most excellently, the September 22nd release date also acts as the opening flag for a mammoth run of tour dates: a month in the US, followed by the holidays and then more in the UK and the EU and the rest of this world, provided it’s all still there! Plum around, with Wand this fall.

 

CORY HANSON – ” Garden Of Delight “

Posted: April 1, 2017 in MUSIC
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The exploratory transition into solo song-scribe found on Cory Hanson’s “The Unborn Capitallist From Limbo” put newly formed strengths as a songwriter and lyricist on display with palpable acuity. After its release at the end of 2016 and the fantastic February tour of the Pacific Northwest that followed, it’s about time we approach The Unborn Capitalist From Limbo from a new angle, and through a lens: yes, Cory has a fresh music video ripe for consumption! “Garden of Delight” was shot earlier this year, blending cerebral melancholy and lush arrangements of song with the soothing western sun and earthly, botanical surroundings, guiding us on a trip through the looking glass.

Shot on 8mm and mini-DV, directed by Elise Tyler and edited by Wand’s Evan Burrows, “Garden of Delight” looks as timeless and wistful as it sounds.

Song from “The Unborn Capitalist from Limbo”, released on November 11th, 2016. Available on LP, Cassette, CD, and digital from Drag City Records.

CORY HANSON – ” The Unborn Capitalist From Limbo “

Posted: October 23, 2016 in MUSIC
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Cory Hanson: The Unborn Capitalist From Limbo (DC663)

Cory Hanson’s solo debut is one of the things happening that allows us to think that the final generations of this burning and chaotic sphere will indeed offer some of the finest young things that history will ever  Cory is of course the singer from the band Wand, whose solo album you’ve doubtlessly been clamoring for all these  well at least since the last Wand album, when you lay ears on , it’ll all become clear. Cory‘s songs stand in stark contrast to the all-or-everything hive-mind of Wand, and the austere nature of the arrangement Cory on acoustic, with sparing rhythmic accompaniment and a careful use of string quartet – lends weight to the straightforward narratives wove into the songs. Tales of apartments being torn apart; walking in nature; escape from a sealed bag; people fornicating and drowning as mom floats in space

Terrible things are happening here – but dry-eyed Cory details savagery and seeming non-sequitur with compassion and perseverence, as the strings color the space around the songs him with inflections from phases of pop music, all of which evokes the mission style of his homeland, the sunny (yet-shadowy) south of California. The Unborn Capitalist From Limbo is a profound departure from the world of Wand, and, fully-formed, it takes its place in the firmament of orchestrally-lit pop albums, it’s earth-bound issues allowed to take flight as music.

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On November 11th, people of all nations who require some kind of healing are free to welcome The Unborn Capitalist From Limbo into their quietest places.

WAND – ” 1000 days “

Posted: December 24, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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By our count, it was less than 365 days from the moment last year when Wand was supporting Ty Segall at the 9.30 Club to the release of their third album in approximately a year.  1000 Days was instantly a big breakthrough and a minor classic , an incredibly ambitious work combining Eno-esque synths and prog song structures with the punk’n’thunder of this young band’s previous two releases. Cory Hanson has to be added to the roster of West Coast phenoms along with Ty, John Dwyer of Thee Oh Sees, and Tim Presley of White Fence — keeping rock’n’roll alive and kicking in a hostile world.  The thing about 1000 Days is that it both seems like a mere extension to Golem and the other excellent album  Ganglion Reef, Wand’s previous two albums, and is conceptually bolder, suggesting Hanson’s songwriting is growing magically, a sorcerer’s conjuring of talent that should bring them their deserved audience over the next 1000 days.

We could’ve probably filled this years best albums with 2015 releases by Wand, Hey Colossus and Jerusalem In My Heart amongst so many others , but luckily quantity doesn’t always want for quality – especially not with these guys. March’s Golem album was great, but the ridiculous amount of tunes squirting out the sides of 1000 Days takes Wand to another level. Cory Hanson appears to have nicked not just Marc Bolan’s vocal chords, but his knack for a killer hook too.

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