Psychedelic rockers Wand soon release a new album, Vertigo, via Drag City, and they are on tour with a date locally at Songbyrd Music House on Saturday, July 20!
Wand are set to release Vertigo on July 26, but meanwhile present some of its tracks live on tour!
Determining to work backwards (or at least insideout) this time, Wand recorded everything in their own studio; pieces cut from improvisations and reshaped, writing from within the performance, without the woodshed. Unconsciously, in the shadow of themselves, and turning round and round (and round), they kept finding that empty space and playing what it implied. Everybody took on a new position in addition to the old one. It was intuitive, strangely ego-less… going somewhere they’d never been and not knowing what they were doing, but committing and recommitting, unafraid to eject in a constant positive forward momentum.
Watch the official music video for “Smile” by Wand on YouTube:
Wand are funneling energy, pitching space your way — more like to stand your hair on its toes with every verse — chorus. Pulling on segments of infinity, boiled down and resequenced, they’ve devised their own dream gear to drive the old moterik into wide open space, in atmospheric reverb, on perma-globular drift. In stereo. A pulpy SLiCE of the collective contradiction; the songs slide cuts of genus and genii, captured beatscape and soundtrack, found melody on anxious rock beats pulled into the ether and spurt back out again — pretzeled and more — into a new gravitational center, sewn together by tongues. And propagated by more, as you commence to sing along.
Wand formed in late 2013 in Los Angeles and got right to work playing, writing, and conceptualizing a contrarian path forward — the only viable trail to follow for a rock band that formed in the twenty-teens (and audaciously named itself Wand). The quartet includes Cory Hanson (vocals, guitar), Robert Cody (guitar), Evan Backer (bass), and Evan Burrows (drums).
Wand
Songbyrd Music House
Saturday, July 20
Doors @ 7pm
$29.62
All ages