Wilder Maker: Zion - VINYL LP

Wilder Maker: Zion - VINYL LPTitle: Zion Artist: Wilder Maker Label: Northern Spy Records Product Type: VINYL LP UPC: 754697444318 Genre: Rock Release Date: 2018 07 20 Number of Discs: 1 Additional Details: DIGITAL DOWNLOAD CARD James Joyce once said that if all of Dublin was destroyed, they ought to be able to rebuild it brick by brick just from reading his novels. Wilder Maker's Zion is the first chapter in a musical novel that makes the same claim for Brooklyn, NY. Written by

Title: Zion
Artist: Wilder Maker
Label: Northern Spy Records
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 754697444318
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2018-07-20
Number of Discs: 1
Additional Details: DIGITAL DOWNLOAD CARD

James Joyce once said that if all of Dublin was destroyed, they ought to be able to rebuild it brick by brick just from reading his novels. Wilder Maker's Zion is the first chapter in a musical novel that makes the same claim for Brooklyn, NY. Written by guitarist/saxophonist/singer Gabriel Birnbaum and brought to life with long time collaborators Katie Von Schleicher, Nick Jost (Baroness), Adam Brisbin (Sam Evian, Jolie Holland) and Sean Mullins, Zion is a kaleidoscopic snapshot of years hustling for a break in New York City: waking up at 5 am to pour coffee for the brownstone-owning elite, waiting for a drug dealer on a city bench outside a blurry house party, moving catastrophically from apartment to apartment in the garbage scented heat, glimpsing euphoria through the ritual of taking your place among the anonymous crowd at a music festival, having your heart shattered in front of an audience at a bar, drunkenly contemplating bodega window displays, circling ever closer to something that could either be perfection or the drain, depending on the day. Last year's Saddle Creek single New Streets showcased the band in their poppiest Fleetwood-Mac-channeling mode, breezy summer jams for driving with the windows down, and it got them noticed by NPR, SPIN and Stereogum, but Zion hugely expands their palate of tools. It's influences run from classic 70's Dylan to blown out free jazz saxophone, from Dr. John's swampy psychedelia to Ethiopian sounds picked up from Birnbaum's many years as a member of Debo Band, with hints of Coltrane's classic quartet and nods to The Velvet Undergound. Zion is an omnivorous record. It's wide ranging influences have been hinted at throughout Wilder Maker's adventurous catalogue of self-released material but never explored so fully, or with this kind of wild energy and unclassifiable groove. This is a record to dance to, to cry to, to sing along to, maybe all three at once.1 Closer To God2 Impossible Summer3 Women Dancing Immortal4 Drunk Driver5 Gonna Get My Money6 Multiplied7 Cocaine Man

Tracks:
1.1 Closer to God
1.2 Impossible Summer
1.3 Women Dancing Immortal
1.4 Drunk Driver
1.5 Gonna Get My Money
1.6 Multiplied
1.7 Cocaine Man