On Friday, August 17, Brooklyn, NY's Union Pool had a show with Celebration, Mike Wexler and Hiro Kone. For more from Daniel, please visit his tumblr. See more images from this post.
André Gomes Segundo disco Mike Wexler é retrato negro e rico de uma folk a querer ser mais do que isso. Ao segundo disco, o escritor de canções Mike Wexler quis ser mais do que um escritor de canções e romper com o passado. Quis repensar o seu som e chegar a algo distinto, abrindo a sua palete sonora de uma forma quase dramática. E conseguiu-o: Dispossession é muito mais do que um disco de canções, é um disco [...]
Nel 2007, al termine dell'anno occorsogli per la realizzazione del suo (a questo punto pen)ultimo "Sun Wheel", il newyorkese Mike Wexler si ripromise di non impiegare così tanto tempo per le registrazioni dell'album successivo. E ovviamente di anni, da allora, ne son passati cinque. Si da il caso però che la puntigliosità con cui "Dispossession" è stato modellato, rimodellato e infine partorito compensa l'attesa per un ritorno dopo così lungo iato. A proposito del titolo, lo stesso Mike afferma che vi si può pensare "come ad uno stato di totale nullatenenza, il che [...]
'Pariah' is a tender but spooky atmospheric track from Brooklyn singer-songwriter Mike Wexler 's new album 'Dispossession'.
by Andrew Sacher Mike Wexler Brooklyn's Mike Wexler released his sophomore LP, Dispossession , earlier this month via Mexican Summer. The album follows his debut LP, Sun Wheel , which arrived five years earlier and in that time he's been honing his brand of psychedelic folk and making it sound even starker than it does on his debut. Dispossession recalls the loner folk of late '60s/early '70s artists like [...]
Brooklyn's Mike Wexler certainly is no newcomer anymore, after already having released stuff under his real name since 2005. He's just released his second album Dispossession via Mexican Summer and I want to seize the chance to familiarize you guys with his music. Out of nothing, he surprises the listener with a collection of 7 haunting songs , all of them beautiful in their own way. Listening to Mike Wexler's new stuff is like weightlessly floating through space in a dream you never want to end. [...]
This is an album about travelling in realms unexplored, about finding the new, and Wexler digs his heels into this new soil and heads off in various fruitful directions. I hesitate to call what Mike Wexler does dreamy, even if it presents as such. It bears all the marks of something we'd consider "dreamy". It's got thick layers, layers with seemingly no limitations, low ends that don't thump so much as cast a shadow, a voice that is quiet and smudged at the edges. His songs take us into great swaths of space, and in that space there are [...]
Dispossession , il nuovo album di Mike Wexler, è uscito il 6 Marzo per Mexican Summer - qui sotto in streaming il brano di apertura, Pariah :
A number of bands will get a pop from performances at SXSW this week. But there's already been a lot of buzz around some fine albums released this year before the big tilt in Austin. Grimes and Cloud Nothings made two of my favorite albums this year and they couldn't be more different. Grimes' Visions is insanely catchy electronic pop. The songs will stick in your head for weeks. Grimes is Claire Boucher, a Canadian singer who turns 24 this weekend. Boucher had [...]
Mike Wexler’s music incites certain urges in people. Listening to Dispossession – the Brooklyn singer/songwriter’s second album, and first for Mexican Summer – fills you with the urge to head out into the desert and consume copious amounts of peyote; the urge to slow your blinking down by at least 30 per cent; and the urge to buy a hammock. It’s atmospheric and washed-out, but deeply layered mescaline folk – as unsettling as it is hypnotic, with Wexler spinning song after song through your mind in a hazy blur. There are some epic tracks to [...]
The Men Words : Drake Lelane What's the saying? "March enters like a lion and leaves like a lamb?" Between the sophomore releases from both The Men and Mike Wexler , we've certainly achieved the first part of that equation. Other artists with new releases this week include Andrew Bird, Bruce Springsteen, The Magnetic Fields, Bowerbirds, Time Fite, White Rabbits, Yellow Ostrich, Pond (no, not that one), Xiu Xiu, Nite Jewel, Kaiser Chiefs, Miniature Birds and Said the Whale [...]
What's the saying? "March enters like a lion and leaves like a lamb?" Between the sophomore releases from both The Mean and Mike Wexler, we've certainly achieved the first part of that equation. Other artists with new releases this week include Andrew Bird, Bruce Springsteen, The Magnetic Fields, Bowerbirds, Time Fite, White Rabbits, Pond (no, not that one), Xiu Xiu, Nite Jewel, Kaiser Chiefs, Miniature Birds and Said the Whale. Playlist: New Releases 03.06.12: Spotify The Men - Open Your Heart [...]
Mike Wexler may not be of this time, or any other, for that matter. Dispossession , Wexler's second full-length and his Mexican Summer debut, is definitely a "Where did this thing come from?" type of record. And though the answer is obviously not as peculiar or interesting as you might desire, for a record as utterly enigmatic and transient as Dispossession , more occult conclusions could also be argued. I'm not fully convinced Wexler is more than a wandering spirit. Dispossession exists on its own plane of acid-washed semi-wakefulness. Throughout its short-lived [...]
Back in the good old days, the term singer-songwriter was reserved for those amongst us that occupied a creative plain far beyond the comprehension of us mere mortals. But; since the dawn of this new decade we find ourselves in, its once highly esteemed reputation is being chucked at any man woman or child in the chart. It is therefore deeply refreshing to discover that Mike Wexler ’s second full length album; Dispossession is here to rescue us all from the humdrum of the mass produced and the massively overrated who have been allowed to tarnish what [...]
The Brooklyn singer-songwriter's sophomore full-length takes a major leap forward March 6, intrepid Brooklyn singer-songwriter Mike Wexler released Dispossession, his second full-length and first for new label home, Mexican Summer. It's also his finest: a leap forward whose elliptical arrangements and understated, serpentine delivery find Wexler really owning that odd space between Robert Wyatt and Nick Drake. Drink it up in its entirety in our first listen. Read more »
The Brooklyn singer-songwriter's sophomore full-length takes a major leap forward March 6, intrepid Brooklyn singer-songwriter Mike Wexler released Dispossession, his second full-length and first for new label home, Mexican Summer. It's also his finest: a leap forward whose elliptical arrangements and understated, serpentine delivery find Wexler really owning that odd space between Robert Wyatt and Nick Drake. Drink it up in its entirety in our first listen. Read more »
We couldn't have dreamed up a better audio/visual pairing for this Open Bar session at Veronica Peoples Club. Brooklyn's own Mike Wexler sang us some soft and delicate slow-burners while Dogtown and Z Boys played ... read more
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Mexican Summer are quietly putting together an enviable catalogue. The New York label is responsible for recent releases from softsynth luminaries Oneohtrix and Ford & Lopatin - but it is '60s-informed guitars, rather than pop futurism, that characterise their latest project. Mike Wexler is from Brooklyn, but 'Lens' sounds distinctly English. Rooted in some of the country's odder folk traditions, the track has the sound of the south-west counties all over it. There is something of the occult about its finger-picked guitar melodies, [...]
Photo by David Black The sunset psych of Mike Wexler' s forthcoming album Dispossession recalls everything from spiritual ragas, to free jazz, to sparse slowcore ballads. His songs are tuned to a deserted night, and Wexler's playlist captures that same feeling of meditation and sprawl. He says this playlist is "to be played in the hour or so before dawn, or whenever else you like," so getting up real early or staying up real late aren't necessarily prerequisites, but that setting will definitely aid the ambient and experimental tones of this mix. Check out the Spotify [...]
NYC psych-folkster Mike Wexler conquered us in 2005 with a debut EP showcasing incredible confidence and talent. We were a little concerned about the lack of output following his first full length "Sun Wheel", out in 2008, but we are happy to report that he's about to release a new album entitled "Dispossession" on March 6 - he also played Union Pool on Saturday 02.25. From what we can hear, the new material is as intense, satisfying and "out there" as we were hoping. Check out the first single "Pariah" below and the new single "Lens" [...]
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