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Pre-order the album now on Peak Vinyl and listen to the previously unreleased track "Electricity" now on digital services. smarturl.it/Civilian-Cut

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Jenn Wasner of Wye Oak has enthralled us with her various other projects, like Flock of Dimes, and her current role as a member of Bon Iver’s touring band. But what has the other half of Wye Oak been up to? Andy Stack has an ongoing solo project too, named Joyero. He unleashed his solo debut album Release The Dogs back in August, and now he’s followed it up with a fantastic tune off a split 7″ from Merge Records’ subscription service, Born Under A Good Sign. The tracks off the 7″ were originally out as vinyl-only releases, but to benefit Honor The Earth, a Native American environmental organization, Merge has unveiled digital versions of the songs. Evacuate is a gauzy psych pop and hazy indietronica song that Joyero wrote in North Carolina during a hurricane. It’s notched and restless, an enduring swathe of textured warbles and whirs with the spacey curls of Tame Impala and the glazed whiskers of Porches. Sharing the 7″ with Joyero is Washington, D.C.’s Gauche and their new song Body Count, which you can stream on Bandcamp, here. Evacuate is also available via Bandcamp, here.

Wye Oak’s The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs is out now. Pick up a copy on LP, CD and digital at your local record store or preferred online outlet. http://smarturl.it/TheLouderICall "It’s a leap into the ether, an album that picks up sounds and ideas from gleaming pop and fuzzed-up indie rock without ever sounding like pop or indie rock or, for that matter, any other genre." —Stereogum Wye Oak on tour: Apr 06 Iowa City, IA – Mission Creek Festival Apr 20 Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso Noord Apr 21 Rotterdam, NL – Motel Mozaique Festival Apr 22 Luxembourg, LU – De Gudde Wellen Apr 25 Berlin, DE – BiNuu Apr 26 Prague, CZ – MeetFactory Apr 27 Vienna, AT – Fluc Apr 29 Zurich, CH – Bogen F May 01 Brussels, BE – Les Nuits Botanique @ Rotonde May 02 Paris, FR – Le Pop Up May 03 London, UK – Village Underground May 04 Manchester, UK – The Deaf Institute May 05 Liverpool, UK – Liverpool Sound City May 06 Dublin, IE – Whelan’s May 09 Asheville, NC – Grey Eagle May 10 Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle May 11 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club May 13 Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair May 14 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer May 15 Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel May 17 Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall May 18 Milwaukee, WI – The Back Room at Colectivo May 19 St. Paul, MN – Turf Club May 20 Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room May 21 Kansas City, MO – Record Bar May 23 Denver, CO – Bluebird Theater May 25 St. Louis, MO – Ready Room May 26 Louisville, KY – Zanzabar Jul 11 Salt Lake City, UT – Metro Music Hall Jul 13 Portland, OR – Revolution Hall Jul 14 Vancouver, BC – The Biltmore Cabaret Jul 15 Seattle, WA – Neumos Jul 17 San Francisco, CA – The Independent Jul 18 Oakland, CA – Starline Social Club Jul 19 Los Angeles, CA – Lodge Room Jul 20 San Diego, CA – Soda Bar Jul 21 Phoenix, AZ – The Crescent Ballroom Jul 23 Santa Fe, NM – Meow Wolf Jul 24 El Paso, TX – Lowbrow Palace Jul 27 Birmingham, AL – Saturn

Listen to the new single "TNT" now in the usual places. https://smarturl.it/WyeOak-TNT

Singer-guitarist Jenn Wasner and drummer-keyboardist Andy Stack have been making crowd-pleasing genre-spanning indie rock as Wye Oak for nearly a decade and a half, earning a reputation of a band as eager to record as they are to perform live. The Baltimore duo’s most recent studio album, The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs (stream it here), arrived to some considerable acclaim on Merge Records about two years ago. “This is a hugely creative and wildly ambitious sixth record from Wye Oak, made up of apparently endless waves of sound and experimental slices of indie, folk and synth-pop, all anchored by Wasner’s fantastic, oscillating vocals,” raves the Skinny. “The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs revels in keeping you off balance; it impresses, inspires and occasionally overwhelms, but it never outstays its welcome. A fantastic statement from an endlessly evolving band shouting louder than ever.” And the Line of Best Fit adds: “Wye Oak’s forward-thinking approach proves they’re miles ahead of their peers in more ways than one, and if they can keep on moving, things are likely to stay that way for some time.” After recently putting out three singles (stream them here), Wye Oak are back out on the road and play Music Hall of Williamsburg on Wednesday night. Don’t miss Chicago experimental two-piece Ohmme opening the show.

The band have also release a mini-doc about the band’s history and how their upcoming tour will be unlike anything they’ve done before. Watch it ⬆︎