Album Rating: 5.0

You had me at 'v similar to this' - I'll definitely check it next my dude

Album Rating: 5.0

Put this on in the background for the first time in about 5 years as opposed to taking time and 'actively' listening - it still rips as background music ;_;

Album Rating: 5.0

just broke up w my gf here we go meadowlands on rotation

Album Rating: 5.0

Damn, man, I'm sorry to hear. This album is the best friend you could ever have.

Album Rating: 4.5

you'll get through this, pherobro

Album Rating: 5.0

thx dudes xx



this album is definitely a necessity in troubling times

Album Rating: 5.0

The last minute of happy really illustrated why this is such a classic. It doesnt need to be there but it adds soooo much to the album

Album Rating: 3.5

‘just broke up w my gf here we go meadowlands on rotation’



Good Lord

Album Rating: 5.0

Haha hey its actually not necessary for you to be a dick for no reason bud :^)

Album Rating: 5.0

The albums primarily about break ups too lol



(among other things)

Album Rating: 5.0

Given the seemingly perfectionist nature of the wrens right now regarding the new release, the fact that This Is Not What You Had Planned was apparently recorded drunk and improvised and was still kept on the album is surprising.



BUT BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABBBBEEEEE

Album Rating: 5.0

Damn really??? It's such a good lil song lol

Album Rating: 5.0

Took some digging but I found the quote -

Stylus: So you just came home drunk, found a piano and pressed the record button on a tape recorder?

K: Yeah, that’s exactly how it happened. We’ve all done this, where someone will just walk into a room and start singing and playing a song, immediately right there, top to bottom.

C: We don’t release them. We only release the ones we work 13 months on.

K: When we do it--you know, Charles walks in from dinner and starts playing away--sometimes it’s perfect, but we just forget about it. This is the one time where--ah--never played it before, never sang it before, never wrote lyrics. Recorded at that second. Everything was a one-shot.

Stylus: What was going on in your life at that moment?

K: Actually, that night I broke up with my girlfriend. [laughs] We broke up that night, I got rip-roaring, then I came home and that was it. In all honesty, I was so happy with it that I listened to it the rest of the night, completely stone drunk.

Stylus: Maybe it was worth it breaking up with her…

K: It possibly was. And these guys were so nice, they said “it’s the best thing you’ve ever done. Fuck all your other songs.”

Album Rating: 5.0

that's so perfect and makes me so happy

Album Rating: 5.0

functioning as the other side of the coin to the very carefully tailored '13 months' just adds to its perfection

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah I love that so much haha

Album Rating: 4.6

maybe if they embraced spur-of-the-moment stuff more they wouldn't be so perfectionist they literally never release anything again. like that's not perfection that's procrastination my dudes. the Jay Electronica curse



...I'm just mad I love these guys but fucking release the album already

Album Rating: 5.0

still one of the best

Album Rating: 5.0

man listening to this makes me feel old af



i remember when i first listened to '13 months' and heard "not yet 21" i was like wow lol they're so old



time is unstoppable

Album Rating: 5.0

After falling off the list for a year or two (understandably - ha), back on for ’21 and tellingly, the part I was showing off to the family was that it features a photo of Heir #2 (and thanks, S’gum).



And the update on that album, at 1000th the story: album done over a year, sorting out band poop, on break for holidays, in one form or another all the songs to be released the coming year, prob. spring:



the wrens on facebook - how many times have we heard this? n yet I get excited every time