Wail - WAIL (2021) [96kHz/24bit]

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Wail - WAIL (2021) 96-24
Country: USA
Genre: Instrumental Rock
Format: FLAC (*tracks)
Quality: Lossless [96 kHz/24 bit]
Time: 59:32
Full Size: 1.21 GB

Philadelphia instrumentalist four-piece Wail released their self-titled debut July 23 on Translation Loss Records, and across its 10 tracks they jam out like the Philly All-Stars they are by any other name. Featuring Yanni Papadopoulos and Alexi Papadopoulos of Stinking Lizaveta on guitar and bass, EDO's Pete Wilder also on guitar and drummer Grant Calvin Weston, who's worked with James "Blood" Ulmer, Billy Martin and hosts of others in varying jazz, funk and fusion contexts in addition to performing solo, they don't skimp on pedigree, but the hour-long Wail is of course about more than the stuff they've done before. The bounce and surging lead guitar of "Family Man" and the jangly underpinning of swing in preceding opener "He Knows What it Is," building to a fullness of tone and then pulling back to make room for the next solo, the jab-throwing rhythm of "Symmetry" and the way its burgeoning psychedelic feel give over to the nine-minute stretch of "Astronomy"a and the ensuing languid hypnocraft in the first half there - rest assured, they grow freakier as they go - all of these elements come together early on the record to establish a sonic personality with the confidence to go where it wants and follow improvisational whims, but also to build a conversation between the players involved and dive into the chemistry there. Just so happens there's plenty of that to go around.

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