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Vertigo

Wand

Vertigo

Sixth album of psychedelic garage rock from the LA-based quintet

ADM rating[?]

7.6

Label
Drag City
UK Release date
26/07/2024
US Release date
26/07/2024
  1. 8.5 |   Under The Radar

    Wand’s new album, Vertigo, is alive with mysterious alchemy and limitless invention
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  2. 8.0 |   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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  3. 8.0 |   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

  4. 8.0 |   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

  5. 8.0 |   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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  6. 7.5 |   Spin

    You won’t hear much new on Vertigo, but what’s there is lovingly, potently rendered
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  7. 7.3 |   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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