The Download: New (and Old) Wrens MP3s
This year marks the 20th Anniversay for the Wrens and the band assured us yesterday via its newly revamped website that they will begin recording LP4 next week. The New Jersey outfit recently performed for the Worldspace Sessions at Abbey Road, including a new song that was made up on the spot. According to the site:
“So we’re there, setting up, preparing to play a four-song selection of the same tired Meadowlands chestnuts we’ve been coasting on for five years now, [“…chestnuuuuuts coasting on an open fire] and it begins to sink in that we’re about to perform live on satellite radio, recording direct-to-multitrack, in front of a small studio audience, in Abbey Road.
This would clearly be the perfect time to take a page out of our old playbook and make up something new on the spot. That this would make it the first official new music in 10 years to be worked on by the four of us together, in one room (no matter how slapdash & last-minute), only clinched it.”
The results were so good, they figured they’d put it on the market. Download “Pulled Fences (Live at Abbey Road Studios)” for 99 cents at Amazon or iTunes, or if you’re unfamiliar with the Wrens, pick up a few freebies below.
MP3: The Wrens, “Surprise, Honeycomb,” Secaucus (Grass Records)
MP3: The Wrens, “Dance the Midwest,” Secaucus (Grass Records)
MP3: The Wrens, “Everyone Choose Sides,” The Meadowlands (Absolutely Kosher)
