And The Wiremen

And The Wiremen

And The Wiremen was formed around 2010 at a studio in the middle of swamp just north of New Orleans. New York-based composer Lynn Wright had gathered a group of musicians­––among them his then principal collaborator Sparklehorse’s Paul Watson and bassist Tony Maimone (Pere Ubu, etc.) ––to record songs he had written for other singers. Early in the proceedings, the engineer refused to continue working unless Wright sang them himself. He agreed.

Between 2010 and early 2016 And The Wiremen recording an eponymous album, the EP Send Me Low, and a single Caged Bird with a multi-generational, genre-crossing gaggle of musicians. When so inclined and their usual musical duties allowed, they would do short tours of the US and Europe, and then disappear from whence they came.

In 2016 the band went on hiatus following Watson’s premature retirement from music due to worsening symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. Wright went back to composing for dance and film, performing with various free-improvisation and new music ensembles, and released an album with Swan’s guitarist Norman Westberg and former Swans/Foetus bassist Algis Kizys under the moniker This Is Where.

The band reconvened at the end of 2019 for series of shows in New York. With their new album Night Cracks Harbor, slated for a fall 2020 release, the on again/off again project becomes a more focused band, helmed by Wright with violinist Simon Goff serving as co-producer and arranger. The nourish jazz tendencies that were prominent on their early recordings are less obvious, and the music falls somewhere between a post-rock iteration of early Roxy Music and the fringes of PJ Harvey’s more recent work. As Always, it is really a sound of their own, no matter how familiar it may seem.

The single Chosen Sons will be available as a digital release on 30th of March.

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