Stream: Wages, ‘Glace’ (full album)
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Wages’ new album “Glace” lives up to its name — it’s polished and luminous no matter which side you’re listening to. And it does have sides; in fact, “Glace” has a split personality, though we wouldn’t call it a disorder. The band (Nick Byron Campbell, James DeDakis, Dustin Robles and Matt Rumley) released two outstanding EPs in 2015, showing on the second, November’s “Sacre Coeur,” that they could out-indie-rock the best of indie-rockers. It was a surprise, given Wages’ predisposition for cinematic and often experimental art-rock, a tack that has seen the band mount sound art installations at venues such as the Center for the Arts Eagle Rock and Machine Project. The cathartic songs on “Sacre Coeur” account for the first half of “Glace,” before the album segues into stunning and often chilling ambient rock explorations. “Gotta” sparkles like sunlight off a mountain lake, and the glacial meditation “All Gone” patiently unfolds over a groaning synth, arriving at a sky-high chorus. Wages are possibly the only band who could draw comparisons to Band of Horses and Sigur Ros on the same album, and both them be right. So rock out to tracks 1 through 5 and beam yourself to another dimension with the final six songs and see if you can achieve, as Campbelll sings in the closer, “Super Perfect Dreams.” “Glace” is out Friday.
||| Stream: “Glace”
||| Previously: “Rattlesnake,” “L’oeil” EP, “Pull Through”
[…] Buzzbands has been one of Wages earliest and most vocal online supporters, so it’s not a surprise the site is currently hosting a full-album stream of the band’s debut LP Glace. “Wages are possibly the only band who could draw comparisons to Band of Horses and Sigur Ros on the same album,” writes Kevin Bronson, referring to the diversity of sounds collected on the album. “Glace has a split personality, though we wouldn’t call it a disorder,” he says, explaining that audiences can “rock out to tracks 1 through 5 and beam yourself to another dimension with the final six songs,” which are comprised of “stunning and often chilling ambient rock explorations.” Read the review and hear the whole LP here. […]
[…] Sincere Gifts are a bicoastal art-rock/chamber-pop project helmed by Nick Byron Campbell and Ben Wigler, who were once mates in the Brooklyn indie-rock band Arizona. Wigler went on to make music in New Beard, while Campbell headed to Los Angeles to front the art-rock band Wages. […]