Our music director Wyatt sent over these descriptions of the new albums that you’ll be hearing on WMRE…
Artist: The Morning Benders
Album: Big Echo
Key tracks: Excuses, Promises, All Day Day Light
Sounds like: elephant 6 collective but with california influence
The Morning Benders came onto the scene a couple years ago with their highly praised debut album Talking Through Tin Cans, and now they’re back and sounding even better. Big Echo has a more mature sound but still has some straight up pop songs that are hard not to dance to (listen to All Day Day Light it will make you so happy!!). I also recommend the wall of sound song Excuses, featuring members of Girls, Port O’Brien, John Vanderslice, and others. The morning benders are proof that good pop music still exists!
Artist: Broken Bells
Album: Broken Bells
Key tracks: The High Road, Citizen, October
Sounds like: well, like the shins and danger mouse
Broken Bells is a new project from James Mercer of the Shins and Danger Mouse. It’s a good album but at times kind of slow. But enjoyable nonetheless, with plenty of melodies and some experimentation.
Artist: Wrench in the Works
Album: Decrease/Increase (Courtesy of the good folks at Facedown Records)
Key tracks: Gethsemane, Vultures, Pocket Watch
Taking the innovation of a “contempo-noise” alternative genre and joining it with the fundamental excellence of bands like Converge, Deadguy and Zao, Wrench in the Works has honed a style of progressive music that is genuinely unique and savagely majestic. A sound which is brutally aggressive joins with well-written metal-influenced hardcore to show its unabashed rebellion against the genre’s restricting conventions. As experimental metal begins to flow with the mainstream, Wrench in the Works desists from the gimmicks that plague the stage during so many metal-hardcore hybrid shows, allowing the unconventionality of their writing to shine through.
Light Rotation:
artist: Chasing Kings
album: The Current State of Our Future
key tracks: The Current State of Our Future, All My Life
sounds like: in the vein of Dr. Dog and the Beatles
Chasing Kings are an up and coming band from around my parts in Los Angeles with a unique sound and lots of potential. They consistently put on a great live show and they’re also “hella” hilarious. Shwayze not the only music Malibu has to offer folks (thank god)
