Wye Oak "Shriek: Variations" (10th Anniversary) 2024-10-11 we are made up of

we are made up of fictions of things people tell us

It's a competent set of alternative funk and metal

Al' and Daringer handle the album's music

I'm not even sure what that means and if music can really be separated like that

Tastes Like Gold June 2022 via Round Hill Records

Wye Oak "Shriek: Variations" (10th Anniversary) 2024-10-11 we are made up ofIn 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