The Meadowlands

The Wrens
Lomax Records

Released: 27th February 2006
Catalogue Number: LOMAX018CD

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The Meadowlands album is New Jersey quartet, The Wrens‘, third full-length album and is a masterclass in emotional dynamics and sheer power. It is an essential recording that repays repeated listens with new insights and discoveries. It has just been released in the UK to universal acclaim.

This Special Edition contains two fantastic extra songs that were recorded during the album sessions but were not mixed in time to make the original cut. Here they are reinstated for your pleasure and edification. They are ‘Such A Pretty Lie’ and ‘Nervous And Not Me’. Simply Awesome.

“The Wrens are indeed a revelation: a sound ripped apart, reassembled and brought fantastically to life by a truly individual quartet. A rare treasure. 9 out of 10: Album of the Month” NME – Dele Fadele

“The Meadowlands, is some kind of masterpiece: a seamless blend of shockingly intense, in-your-face sounds and emotions, of immediacy and distance, alienation and engagement, the ominous and the reassuring. I hear a Neil Young refusing to luxuriate in his melancholy, a young David Byrne shorn of his Joe College smart-aleckery, Springsteen minus the melodrama or even a grownup Kurt Cobain resigned to pursuing his art through the blue-collar wasteland.”
MOJO – Charles Shaar Murray

“They erupted like a volcano. It was like watching the Clash play a set of Gang of Four songs on steroids. As the singer, Kevin Whelan, swung his bass around while clambering up and leaping off every elevated surface available, the guitarists, Charles Bissell and Whelan’s brother Greg, lurched and lunged in a chaotic dance of dementia at either side. It was a minor miracle that nobody got hurt.” THE SUNDAY TIMES – David Sinclair