Summary from 6 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Wrens's catalog across 3 albums from 6 opinions, with an overall average of 8.5/10. The top-rated Wrens album is The Meadowlands (2002) with a 9.0/10 average from 4 ratings, followed by Half of What You See and Silver. The discography on Wavelength spans 1993 to 2025.
The Meadowlands
“In 2003, a group of mid-thirties men from New Jersey released an album seven years in the waiting: The Meadowlands, an exhaustion-ridden, last-ditch attempt at holding onto a rock career they were all but certain had ended before it began.”
The Meadowlands
“Let me come out of the gate stating the obvious: The summer of 1996 was a fucking long time ago. I was fresh out of high school then, living with my parents in the outlying suburbs of Minneapolis, trying to craft an embryonic Pitchfork into something respectable without any prior writing experience. In the throes of that disgustingly humid, buggy summer in which it seemed I would one day die as I'”
Half of What You See
“The jazz-rap ensemble’s second album is dense, chaotic, and thrilling, with electroacoustic abstraction grounded by casual humor and intentional collaboration.”
Silver
“At a more intimate Wrens show last year, singer/guitarist Charles Bissell came onstage with guitarist Greg Whelan-- but without the band's rhythm section-- and began scraping out a slow, muted, rhythmic passage on guitar, while Whelan scampered about the edges with a few spare, reverberating notes. Bissell started to sing, "Lock me in, tied to work," and a few whoops escaped from the hushed crowd,”
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