Wand announce Golem, follow-up to Ganglion Reef, out March 17th via In The Red and spring tour which also leads them to Kino Šiška!
Bio: Wand is a rock band from Los Angeles, California. “GOLEM” (2015) is the name of their new LP, out March 17th, 2015 on In the Red Records. The first single is “Self Hypnosis in 3 Days”. The album was recorded by Chris Woodhouse at The Dock in Sacramento, California. The record was engineered by Chris Woodhouse, and assisted by Bob Marshall. Mixing was done by Chris Woodhouse, and Wand. Mastering was done by JJ Golden in Ventura, California. Cory Hanson played lead guitar vocal and synthesizers. Lee Landey played bass guitar and synthesizers. Evan Burrows played drums, percussion, and field recordings. Daniel Martens played guitar. Recording took a total of 12 days, including mixing. Mastering was done some afternoon in November.
Track list: The Unexplored Map – Self Hypnosis in 3 Days – Reaper Invert – Melted Rope – Cave In – Flesh Tour – Floating Head – Planet Golem – The Drift
Influences on the record were: Electric Wizard, Crass, Swans, Talking Heads, Municipal Waste, Nervous Gender, Sleep, White Light//White Heat, Black Sabbath, Melvins, Dark Side of the Moon, This Heat, Thou, Gary Numan, our friends, and the weird city of Sacramento.
go·lem
noun \ˈgō-l!m, ˈgȯi-, ˈgā-\
Definition of GOLEM:
1: grace as shapeless mass
2: a triangular office
3: grandparent, shrunken and chapped
4: an entertainer: as
5: slouching desk rider
6: little circuit sniffer
7: skin shaped coffin for your mama papa complex
7: an earthen figure brought to life by holy whispers, via telephone
Examples of GOLEM: “…your mother and father made you a golem…”
“…I went to school but found out I was a golem…”
“…your best friends know you’re a golem, most people do…”
… non-desiring, non-being, organized in abeyance; animated wildly within the confines of a bygone language. Scarfing bone-dry crust from an eclipsed earth. Composed of tiny, brilliant mammalian bodies, millions of faces ~ all indistinguishably broken into slackening outer-digestive circles. Buildings, civilization and planets sucked into an electrified mass that was growing before we were born and will continue expanding long after we are absorbed into it. The effortless planetary gol-em, anal eater of the stars. Amorphous bestial cloud of chrome smell and dream vapor, amongst which we are all subjacent to the largely un-compromised Thing:
grown, and fully realized, as such.
