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Jan 30, 2018 Wye Oak By Christopher Roberts Photography by Shervin Lainez

Wye Oak (Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack) have announced a new album, The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs, and shared its title track. The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs is due out April 6 via Merge. Below is “The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs,” followed by the album’s tracklist and cover art, as well as the band’s upcoming tour dates.

To record the album Wasner and Stack took turns visiting each other’s cities (Durham, North Carolina for Wasner and Marfa, Texas for Stack) for a week at a time.

A press release describes the album as such: “The result is the biggest, broadest, boldest music Wye Oak has ever made. Louder pursues a litany of modern malaises, each of its dozen tracks diligently addressing a new conflict and pinning it against walls of sound, with the song’s subject and shape inextricably and ingeniously linked. It arrives at a time of immense doubt, when our personal problems are infinitely compounded by a world that seems in existential peril. But these songs answer the challenge by radiating self-reflection and resolve, wielding hooks and musical intricacy as a shield against the madness of the moment.”

In 2016 Wye Oak surprise-released the excellent Tween, a mini-album on Merge. Wasner released her debut full-length album under her Flock of Dimes solo project, If You See Me, Say Yes, the same year via Partisan.

The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs Tracklist:

01. “(tuning)”
02. “The Instrument”
03. “The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs”
04. “Lifer”
05. “It Was Not Natural”
06. “Symmetry”
07. “My Signal”
08. “Say Hello”
09. “Over And Over”
10. “You Of All People”
11. “Join”
12. “I Know It’s Real”

Wye Oak Tour Dates:

Feb 16 New York, NY - Symphony Space (Shriek suite with William Brittelle & Metropolis Ensemble)
Apr 06 Iowa City, IA - Mission Creek Festival
Apr 20 Amsterdam, NL - Paradiso Noord
Apr 21 Rotterdam, NL - Motel Mozaique Festival
Apr 22 Luxembourg, LU - De Gudde Wellen
Apr 25 Berlin, DE - BiNuu
Apr 26 Prague, CZ - MeetFactory
Apr 27 Vienna, AT - Fluc
Apr 29 Zurich, CH - Bogen F
May 01 Brussels, BE - Les Nuits Botanique @ Rotonde
May 02 Paris, FR - Le Pop Up
May 03 London, UK - Village Underground
May 04 Manchester, UK - The Deaf Institue
May 05 Liverpool, UK - Liverpool Sound City
May 06 Dublin, IE - Whelan’s
May 09 Asheville, NC - Grey Eagle
May 10 Carrboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle
May 11 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
May 13 Cambridge, MA - The Sinclair
May 14 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer
May 15 Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Steel
May 17 Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall
May 18 Milwaukee, WI - The Back Room at Colectivo
May 19 St. Paul, MN - Turf Club
May 20 Omaha, NE - The Waiting Room
May 21 Kansas City, MO - Record Bar
May 23 Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater
May 25 St. Louis, MO - Ready Room
May 26 Louisville, KY - Zanzabar
Jul 13 Portland, OR - Revolution Hall
Jul 15 Seattle, WA - Neumos
Jul 17 San Francisco, CA - The Independent
Jul 18 Oakland, CA - Starline Social Club
Jul 19 Los Angeles, CA - Lodge Room

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