I'm pretty confident I've seen the Wooden Sky open for someone, at somepoint, but needless to say they weren't overwhelming (or memorable). Their new album, If I Don't Come Home You'll Know I'm Gone, to be released August 25th, I think is going to be a different story. And, if the song "Something Hiding For Us In The Night" is any indication - which it is, I've heard the album - I'm not going to be not remembering tWS again. The song, like the album, (more on the album later, I expect) is a perfect blend of pop/country, angst/without being whiny, tension/without being too tense... a lot of good things already being said about this one...
[mp3] The Wooden Sky - Something Hiding For Us In the Night
Wax Mannequin, a Wolves, Hawks and Kites favourite, also has a new-soon-to-be-released album, Saxon on August 5th. That album, in contrast to the Wooden Sky's, is a one man onslaught of emotion. Despite being a prolific song-writer (5 albums in 4? years and counting), I've never managed to sink my teeth into an entire album - this may be because I've moved from listening to a global selection of bands, to a more Canadian centred sonic space (three cheers for nationalism and xenophobia!) - and I'm not quite sure what I think, of Saxon, that is. There are spots on the album that are absolutely overwhelming (sometimes in a good way, and sometimes not), but the more roots/folk songs like "End of Me" are impossibly moving (and potentially the soundtrack to the next epic movie set in the middle ages)...
[mp3] Wax Mannequin - End of Me
And, if you were looking for something completely, completely, different from the first two singles you needn't look any further than "N.I.C.E." by NYC electro-popster Alan Wilkis from his recently released Pink and Purple. "N.I.C.E." sounds like its taken a backing track from a hidden song from M'Js Off the Wall and... well, it just has a very 80s feel... if you like Chromeo, this may be right up your alley...
[mp3] Alan Wilkis - N.I.C.E.
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