VANS HOUSE PARTIES | WYE OAK House of Vans Chicago welcomed indie rockers, Wye Oak to this week&rsqu
VANS HOUSE PARTIES | WYE OAK House of Vans Chicago welcomed indie rockers, Wye Oak to this week’s Vans House Parties. Wye Oak made up of Andy Stack and Jenn Wasner, got their start in the Baltimore underground scene back in 2006. The duo played all over town building an audience and independently released their debut album If Children in 2007. All that hard work paid off, and in 2008 Wye Oak landed a record deal with indie darling Merge Records. Merge re-released If Children and the band got working on new music. Despite being a duo at the forefront, Stack, and Wasner take advantage of all their talents incorporating drums, keys, guitars, vocals and bass, and sometimes friends to help round out the set. Their sound is layered pulling in influences from rock, folk and dream pop. Earlier this year they released a one-off single “Evergreen” that examines the plight of self-doubt and depression. Wasner sings, “Tell me what is missing in my mind/ I feel the problem is essential/ Its memory/ Is blackening my mind/ I’m taking everything back/ Evergreen.” In a Tweet with the song’s premiere, the band described the track as, “sonic documentation of my seasonal depression.”Wye Oak is set to play MG30 Festival this July to celebrate Merge Records’ 30th anniversary in Carrboro, North Carolina. Grab your tickets here. Photos: Daniel Boczarski -- source link
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