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Under The Radar
Wand’s new album, Vertigo, is alive with mysterious alchemy and limitless invention
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8.0
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All Music
In its moments of both catharsis and ambience, Vertigo maintains a consistent balance. It's a quietly adventurous album that never feels like it's pushing too hard in any one direction, even when the sounds are swinging from blown amplifiers to bubbly flutes
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Uncut
Songs still betray their freestyle origins in what is Wand’s most exploratory album to date, from the disquieting “JJ” to the seven-minute churn of “High Time”. Print edition only
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Mojo
Forged from 60 hours of improvisation, the excellent follow-up to 2019’s Laughing Matter is tightly crafted without being too stable, the band throwing their melodic rope bridges over wide dark spaces on JJ’s woozy exotica lullaby or Lifeboat’s ominous electro-folk. Print edition only
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Northern Transmissions
The album is rich with layers to unpack, yet it remains accessible to listeners. The band’s maturation is evident as they embrace a more atmospheric, slow-building approach
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7.5
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Spin
You won’t hear much new on Vertigo, but what’s there is lovingly, potently rendered
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7.3
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Pitchfork
The Los Angeles quartet reinvents its sound on its sixth album, building on the cosmic post-rock improvisations first teased on 2022’s live Spiders in the Rain
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