[indie-rock, psychedelic rock] (2019) Wand - Laughing Matter
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(2019) Wand - Laughing Matter Review: Beginning in 2013 as a gnarly psych band with garage tendencies, Los Angeles’ Wand quickly made several albums of weird and suffocating music. They ran with the quickly evolving scene that included Ty Segall and Mikal Cronin, and bandleader Cory Hanson’s songs fell into similarly scuzzy territory. A shift began in Wand’s sound around the release of 2017’s Plum, the first album from the group to reflect a new lineup and a new democratic approach to songwriting. Plum and the subsequent 2018 EP Perfume set the tone for the drastic shift the band has been undergoing, and Laughing Matter cements these changes. While earlier Wand albums weren’t absent of mellower moments, they came in the form of acid folk-modeled acoustic psychedelia and were nestled between blasts of disorienting metallic garage. The Wand on Laughing Matter is all but unrecognizable from those early days, and even tends toward moodier, more textural sounds than they did just two years earlier on Plum. The 15 pieces that make up the album were sculpted from lengthy improvisations and distilled into moody, often paranoid songs. Opening with the nervous, scratchy rhythm of “Scarecrow,” Wand suddenly sound more indebted to Radiohead than ever before. Hanson’s pained vocals draw closer to the style of Thom Yorke as the album stretches on, often gelling into bright harmonies with bandmate Sofia Arreguin. Tracklist: 01 - Scarecrow 02 - xoxo 03 - Bubble 04 - High Planes Drifter 05 - Walkie Talkie 06 - Thin Air 07 - Hare 08 - Wonder 09 - Evening Star 10 - Tortoise 11 - Rio Grande 12 - Airplane 13 - Lucky's Sight 14 - Wonder (II) 15 - Jennifer's Gone Summary: Country: USA Genre: indie-rock, psychedelic rock