Blog: Chromewaves

Dan Stack I quite literally swooned when I first heard Baltimore duo Wye Oak via "Warning", the first promo MP3 from their debut album If Children in January 2008 - for a completely unknown band to hit all the right buttons for me at first listen was a pretty remarkable thing. And yet the album itself failed to build on that excitement for no one particular reason. Best I can reason is that while the ingredients of their sound - plaintive country-folking hurt [...]