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Jul 25, 2024Wand’s new album, Vertigo, is alive with mysterious alchemy and limitless invention.
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Aug 1, 2024Vertigo is another compelling chapter in their evolution.
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Jul 25, 2024Wand loves to play with a variety of influences, touching on everything from psych rock to art pop to noise to indie to jam with equal confidence as Vertigo touches these different subgenres but manages to keep an interesting, cohesive tone for the full, dizzying ride.
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MojoJul 25, 2024Forged from 60 hours of improvisation, the excellent follow-up to 2019’s Laughing Matter is tightly crafted without being too stable, the band throwing their melodic rope bridges over wide dark spaces on JJ’s woozy exotica lullaby or Lifeboat’s ominous electro-folk. [Sep 2024, p.84]
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UncutJul 25, 2024Songs still betray their freestyle origins in what is Wand’s most exploratory album to date, from the disquieting “JJ” to the seven-minute churn of “High Time”. [Aug 2024, p.40]
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Jul 25, 2024In its moments of both catharsis and ambience, Vertigo maintains a consistent balance. It's a quietly adventurous album that never feels like it's pushing too hard in any one direction, even when the sounds are swinging from blown amplifiers to bubbly flutes.
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Jul 30, 2024You won’t hear much new on Vertigo, but what’s there is lovingly, potently rendered.
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Jul 29, 2024Gone is their past material’s giddy, lysergic bounce; instead, drummer Evan Burrows pours a spacious, continual foundation where melodies rise through repetition, and rich details (with string and wind arrangements courtesy of Backer) slither and swim.
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Aug 5, 2024Vertigo is ultimately a modest output based upon the original material, not to mention what listeners have come to expect from Wand with each successive effort.