REWIND: AND THE WIREMEN Parade
And The Wiremen Parade is available on Apple Music, Bandcamp
by Walter Price
Going back to the heyday of the global discombobulation, Brooklyn-Berlin-based outfit And The Wiremen (Lynn Wright-led) released a previously recorded and seemingly overlooked noir gem, “Parade”.
“Recorded with the usual bit players and walk-on stars in New York and Berlin sometime(s) between 2016-2018” (Facebook), this one is better to listen and gain your own perspective, but for the sake of words, imagine Wright, Mark Sandman, Leonard Cohen, and Nick Cave were in a post-midnight diner conjuring up shadowy scenes. This is the vibe I get here. While Wright’s smooth vocals on this release may conjure up jazz-pop, the content will certainly find the listener going deep into cerebral post-punk poetical.
It is fascinating that this level of artistry can slip-slide past most of us. You can hear what I’m discovering of late by streaming And The Wiremen’s “Parade” here at the GTC.
AND THE WIREMEN Parade
Artwork via Bandcamp // Artist via Facebook // Bio excerpt via andthewiremen.com
Written by Stephen Lynn Wright
Mixed by Simon Goff
Jonathan Petrow
Eric Hoegemeyer
Lars Zander
Nikki D’Agostino
Grant Curry
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“Between 2010 and early 2016 And The Wiremen recording an eponymous album, the EP Send Me Low, and a single Caged Bird with a multi-generational, genre-crossing gaggle of musicians. When so inclined and their usual musical duties allowed, they would do short tours of the US and Europe, and then disappear from whence they came.” – bio