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Exhausted:
“Because every win
on this record’s
hard-won.”

Being a love letter to The Wrens and their 2003 album, The Meadowlands. Composed of an improbable combination of gushing prose, digital audio recordings, live and promotional music videos, a handful of amusing quotations, an anecdote involving the rock band, “Creed,” one grudging acknowledgment of a web property that rhymes with, “witch dork,” plus a sampling of band photographs, curated from the modest portfolio of your author. Who is a fan.

Wrens songs featured in this post:

  1. The Wrens - “This Boys is Exhausted” (Demo)
  2. The Wrens - “This Boys is Exhausted” (Album Version)
  3. The Wrens - “Hopeless”
  4. The Wrens - “She Sends Kisses”
  5. The Wrens - “Ex-Girl Collection”
  6. The Wrens - “Everyone Choose Sides”

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Recipe for Belle & Sebastian

Being a non-scientific exploration of the musical sub-strata on which one of my favorite bands has stood.

Thusly:

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    • #Love
    • #Nick Drake
    • #The Smiths
    • #indie rock
    • #Velvet Underground
  • 2 years ago
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