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- Summary: The latest full-length release from Los Angeles-based psychedelic rock band Wand was self-recorded, mixed and produced.
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- Record Label: Drag City
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Jul 25, 2024Wand’s new album, Vertigo, is alive with mysterious alchemy and limitless invention.
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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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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, 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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Aug 1, 2024Vertigo is another compelling chapter in their evolution.
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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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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.