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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.

WAND – ” Self Hypnosis In 3 Days “

Posted: August 1, 2015 in MUSIC
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Employing the go-to man of the moment Chris Woodhouse (Thee Oh Sees, Fuzz, Mayyors) on the knobs and his Hanger studio in Sacramento, they have made the rock album of 2015 already – and it’s going to take quite some considerable beating. There’s been so many amazing lps out of the west coast recently we’ve been positively spoilt for choice but ‘Golem’ from the band WAND just has that little more punch, a little more bite and a little more pure fire! From the off it’s 100% proof – pulsating riffs, huge drums, killer hooks but above all it’s got tunes. Take Nirvana’s ‘Bleach’, add a sprinkle of late 60’s metal then dip in the best psychedelic party you’ve ever been too and it’s a hit from start to finish.

 

WAND – ” Stolen Footsteps “

Posted: July 11, 2015 in MUSIC
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A new Song taken from the LP/CASS/CD “1000 Days” by Wand, due to be released September 25th, 2015 on Drag City Records. New Wand aloft!  Wand manufacture a little life within an elaborate craftwork of sound amongst the endless social contrivances of popular music .On their Drag City debut, 1000 Days, Wand move restlessly and gracefully through different divergent phases of music in a single passage of a song. This is how they make their music. Recorded in their hometown of Los Angeles and San Francisco, 1000 Days finds Wand searching in corners and finding extra texture via synthetic animation. The atmosphere is quicksilver and the space acoustic; as a beacon sparks electric, a cascade of hi-fi noises for everyone’s ears – raucous, impassive, inevitable musical expressions.

1000 Days is Wand‘s third album in what can only be called the relative blink of an eye, and their best album too. August of 2014 saw the release of Ganglion Reef, Wand‘s debut album release on God?. Following that, they ranged from their south-Cali base playing shows of all kinds home and abroad. And suddenly, it was March of 2015, with a second album entitled Golem trailing Wand‘s sound farther down the road. No time to spare; more dates to be played across the landmass. And another set of European dates later, 1000 Days. is out September 25th and available for pre-order now; sneak a peek at the first song revealed from 1000 Days here titled Stolen Footsteps.

WAND – ” Ganglian Reef “

Posted: April 11, 2015 in MUSIC
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Wand  next EP release titled “Golem”
When’s it out? April 6th
LA’s Wand impressed with their debut album ‘Ganglion Reef’, which was inspired by a make-believe island. On ‘Golem’ they mix sludgy Black Sabbath-riffs with howling psych vocals to surpass that first record with flying colours.

Ganglion Reef (2014) is by los Angeles Psych garage rock band Wand this is their debut album, released on Ty Segall’s record label, “God?”

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please also check out the Wands from Copenhagen 

 

WAND – ” Self Hypnosis In 3 Days “

Posted: April 10, 2015 in MUSIC
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In August 2014, Los Angeles trio Wand released debut ‘Ganglion Reef’, a psychedelic record inspired by a make-believe island. They’ve maintained that imaginative approach for follow-up ‘Golem’, which is full of brain-bending riffs, effects and abstract lyrics. ‘Self Hypnosis In 3 Days’ mixes Pond’s wackiness with the power and weight of Black Sabbath, and ‘Flesh Tour’ noodles through dark psychedelia as Cory Hanson – who has played in fellow LA bands Meatbodies and Together Pangea – sings in riddles: “Sticks and stones, nobody knows/Life on the body, flesh tour around”. ‘Golem’’s highlight, though, comes in closer ‘Planet Golem’, a march through blacker-than-black sludgy riffs that melts into a puddle of noise.

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LA’s Wand impressed with their debut album ‘Ganglion Reef’, which was inspired by a make-believe island. On ‘Golem’ they mix sludgy Black Sabbath-riffs with howling psych vocals to surpass that first record with flying colours.

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WAND – ” Self Hypnosis in 3 days “

Posted: April 6, 2015 in MUSIC
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Add Wand to the list of bands best realized as a live act. Not to disrespect their two most recent albums, this year’s Golem and last year’s Ganglion Reef, both fine efforts in the lazily-named “garage-psych” canon that add the band’s wizards-and-warlocks imagery to the mix of guitar pyrotechnics and punk urgency that characterize, to some degree, the efforts of regular tourmate Ty Segall and others. Heard in the vacuum of headphones or home speakers, alone, it’s too easy to lump them in with the other bands whose names you know and move on.

But live, there are clearer nods to the band’s actual influences: Rainbow, T. Rex, Bowie, early period Zeppelin — some of the bands that influenced the much-derided L.A. “glam” scene of the 1980s. Wand owe a very much larger debt to these bands than their contemporaries, and that’s not a bad thing. In fact, the glammy sensibility Wand brings to the table serves as a reminder that the wholesale death of the L.A. scene at the hands of grunge was a bit of a throwing out of the baby with the bathwater. If those seventies touchstones can be blamed for giving us Poison and Warrant, it’s worth remembering that the better attitudes they embodied were being unafraid to have style or show off how well you can play, and to make each performance a true performance. Wand may not wear makeup or tight clothing, but their show brings with it some of that theatrical feel that makes them stand out.

WAND – ” Flying Golem “

Posted: March 9, 2015 in MUSIC
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Wand is a Los Angeles-based four-piece comprised of Cory Hanson (vocals, guitar, synth), Evan Burrows (drums), Daniel Martens (guitar), and Lee Landey (bass). Their debut album, “Ganglion Reef“, turned heads in 2014 with fuzzy, sun-baked pop songs filled with ’60s riffs. “GOLEM” is the name of their new LP, releasing on March 17th, 2015 via In the Red Records. The band lists varied influences on the record that include Talking Heads, White Light//White Heat, Melvins, Dark Side of the Moon, and a Philip K Dick short story compilation called The Preserving Machine. They have been lovingly described them as sounding like “Tame Impala rolling around in a mud pit”, while NME recently named Wand their Buzz Band of the Week.

WAND – ” Flying Golem “

Posted: June 22, 2014 in MUSIC
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Los Angeles four piece band WAND with psych tinged guitar riffs and sun bleached melodies this track from the forthcoming album “Ganglian Reef” released on GOD records they support Ty Segall through his mid summer tour.

MIKAL CRONIN – WAND – ” LAMC # 11 “

Posted: March 27, 2014 in MUSIC
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100% of the digital proceeds going to the Ariel Panero Memorial Fund at VH1 Save the Music – a non-profit organization dedicated to restoring instrumental music education in America’s public schools.

Mikal Cronin and this great album

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