Been getting into Wand after falling heavily for Cory Hanson’s solo albums especially ‘Western Cum’ that came out last year. Their newest album ‘Vertigo’ is great too. Especially loving ‘JJ’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjUS80Z3-is
Just found out this morning they’re currently on a UK/EU tour and in Glasgow on Saturday - and I can’t go…
I’m literally relistening to their discography at the moment (currently Laughing Matter) because I’ve got tickets to their show in Glasgow on Saturday.
I fell in love with Golem a few years ago. I absolutely rinsed it when I was working alone during lockdown.
Really into them now - I genuinely disliked them back when they first appeared; took Western Cum to make me reconsider. Pretty annoyed I won’t have been able to see them this tour for various reasons.
First heard Perfume and couldn’t really decide if I liked it or not, and then the same when I first heard Laughing Matter when it came out, it was only when I stuck on Golem that I decided they were great and to go and see them (loved them live and then devoured their whole catalogue).
Golem is the one that initially put me off! - not that it’s bad or anything, but it gave a me strong feeling of ‘why do we need more of this kind of thing’ at the time… I know that is silly and kinda unfair, but there we go
I probably would have found spurious reasons not to like the more recent stuff too, if it hadn’t been for Western Cum. Probably don’t need to psychoanalysise why I like what I like too much, but it can be pretty irrational-seeming when I trace it back
I honestly get your point; I feel that way about certain types of indie music which don’t click with me so much. But I just happen to be weak at the knees for anything with that neo-psychadelia / garage rock kind of sound. My brain likes big fuzzy noise and guitar.
Another relatable point!! I have beyond given up trying to rationalise any of my own tastes at this point, I end up in turmoil. I don’t actually know very much about music and I like what I like, simple as… with the caveat that there are some things that might require multiple chances for me to get into ahhhhhh.
I’m loving the new album, very pleased about this evolution.
so I’m just listening to some of the rest of Vertigo right now and holy shit, this is as up my street as the song I’d heard on a podcast (‘Smile’) implied. I always have kind of a dream of one day forming a band who sound somewhere between R.E.M. and Zelienople and this kind of gets close to that vision I have in my head
I liked them a lot through Plum, (having started with Golem) even though that’s when their sound really shifted I felt it was really strong and promising. For some reason I haven’t listened to a full album since, just heard a few tracks and a few solo Cory ones but nothing’s resonating enough to pull me into a full album. I feel like things really slowed down and I don’t have the patience maybe? Clips of Laughing Matter just put me off I guess. A few bits of the recent one sound decent but again there’s something about the vibe that isn’t pulling me in.