WYE OAK – Civilian And Cut All the Wires: 2009 2011 – 2LP – Green Swirl Vinyl

LABEL: Merge Records

CAT NO: MRG770LPC1

BARCODE: 0673855077000

Tracklisting:

SIDE A.
1. Two Small Deaths
2. The Alter
3. Holy Holy
4. Dogs Eyes
5. Civilian

SIDE B:
1. Fish
2. Plains
3. Hot as Day
4. We Were Wealth
5. Doubt
6. Cut All the Wires

SIDE C
1. Replacement
2. Civilian (Demo)
3. No Words
4. Electricity
5. Half a Double Man
6. Sinking Ship

SIDE D
1. Two Small Deaths (Daytrotter Session)
2. Holy Holy (Demo)
3. Pardon
4. Black Is the Color
5. Ten Fingers
6. Im Proud

WYE OAK
Civilian And Cut All the Wires: 2009 2011

2LP Limited Edition Green Swirl Vinyl
(Housed in Gatefold Sleeve with OBI. Includes download code.)

Ten years after its release, Wye Oaks Civilian remains a raw, sinewy punch of a record bleak and intense and lonely and self-assured all at once. The album unravels with the sort of self questioning and uncertainty that come with youth, and its specific confidence in unflinchingly probing all of those emotions, feeling them to their deepest extent even when its tearing you apart at the seams. When Andy Stack and Jenn Wasner released Civilian, it marked both the ascension and death of Wye Oak, or at least a version of it. Now, a decade later, Civilian and Cut All the Wires: 20092011 delves back into that pivotal record and adds a lost album of unreleased tracks and demos to Civilians universe.

Cut All the Wires: 20092011, a 12-song collection of rare and unreleased tracks and demos culled from the Wye Oak archives, is an extension of the bruised and aching Civilian. Sonic paradoxes abound: the mellow Sinking Ship is preceded by the wall-of-sound grunginess that roars through Half a Double Man. A pared-down acoustic Daytrotter live session of Two Small Deaths dovetails into the jangling Holy Holy demo. The closing lyrics over the frenetic, screeching feedback of Electricity lend the anniversary release its title.

See below for tracklisting