Flame Failures, by why+the+wires

Flame Failures

by why+the+wires

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1.	Hello Nurse 03:03	buy track
2.	Crashed Home 01:42	buy track
3.	Punch List 05:06	buy track
4.	Daycrawlers 03:27	buy track
5.	Seizure Party 04:42	buy track
6.	The Arm Will Lead the Way 03:27	buy track
7.	Paperbark Boston 03:09	buy track
8.	Service Animal 02:03	buy track
9.	Jesuser 01:37	buy track
10.	Tolls 05:35	buy track

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Jetsam-Flotsam is excited to partner with One Percent Press to release the new LP from Ithaca, NY’s why+the+wires. The labels will release Flame Failures in the Fall of 2015.

You can hear the first single from Flame Failures now. “Paperback Boston” is premiering exclusively on Modern Vinyl. You can also check out the band’s past records on Bandcamp.

Since forming in Ithaca, NY in 2008, why+the+wires has been delivering a dynamic post-punk frenzy that gets more focused with every album. The songs are tight-wound, angular affairs, moody yet melodic. Rough-throated gospels, shambling shout-alongs, insistent rave-ups and brooding instrumental stretches. Their influences are best pinpointed by geography: San Diego, Chicago, Washington, D.C. Comparisons have ranged from Hot Snakes and Sweep the Leg Johnny to Archers of Loaf and June of 44.

Over the last six years why+the+wires has released three albums, beginning with 2009’s Lost Lighthouses, a somber drone-drenched introduction that was enlivened with accordion, saxophone and violin. By 2011’s Telegraph Flats the volume was increasing and the song structures had splintered. All These Dead Astronauts, released on Rorschach Records in 2012, shed the violin altogether as the group pared down to a four-piece and ramped up the intensity while also adding a dose of mathy intricacy.

Flame Failures reins in that mathy meandering, clenches the muscles, files down the teeth. It is the band’s most ear-blasted, urgent album yet. The songs are set in dank basements, abandoned movie theaters and quarantine tents. They are populated by the walking wounded: epileptic kleptomaniacs, anxious citizens, noise addicts serenaded by radio static. It is soundtrack for those who have been ravaged by reality, depressed by history, the beaten but not quite broken; those of us who have not surrendered yet.

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released November 6, 2015

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