Wye Oak "Shriek: Variations" (10th Anniversary) Color:2xLP Orange Swirl Over a discreet synthesizer ring

Over a discreet synthesizer ring

Nas shares Magic

This is The Mars Volta at their most mature

Their hook-filled heavy music carried an uplifting message and connects with even greater urgency live

Recorded at G1 Productions in Wells

Wye Oak "Shriek: Variations" (10th Anniversary) Color:2xLP Orange Swirl Over a discreet synthesizer ringIn 2014, Wye Oak released Shriek, their fourth album. It was a necessary departure for Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack, who found themselves on uncertain ground after two years of constant touring for 2011s Civilian, living on opposite ends of the country and trying to revitalize their creative partnership. Wasner set aside her guitar for a bass. Stack took on the bands upper register, playing syncopated, meditative keyboard parts that interacted with