Wild Eyes
by Sea Grit
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Streaming + DownloadImmediate download of 9-track album in your choice of format.Purchasable with gift card
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital AlbumLimited edition run of 300 CDs in digipaks with packaging designed by the artist and Jon DeSimone. Also includes immediate download of 9-track album in your choice of format.ships out within 1 dayedition of 300Purchasable with gift card
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Idlewild
05:27
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What Wants Was
04:34
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Ex Machina
04:26
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Quakers
05:16
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TV in '93
01:46
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Summer Song
03:27
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Blacktop
03:34
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It's Like
05:04
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Gold
03:11
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about
Sea Grit is the solo project of Andrew Wright, a musician based out of Brooklyn, New York, whose bedroom experiments unexpectedly blossomed into a full-blown album in the early months of 2010. Faced with impending graduation and a general dissatisfaction with higher education, Wright found himself restless as he entered his senior year of college in the fall of 2009. By mid-year, that restlessness began to manifest itself in spontaneous homemade recordings done in the late evening hours. As the evening recording sessions became more regular and the quality of the material continued to improve, Wright decided to focus his efforts into a record. Wielding only his guitar, a junked synthesizer, a handful of samples, and his laptop, Wright worked his way through the dark months of winter, sculpting what would become Wild Eyes, an album of hazy, experimental instrumentals filtered through layers of pop, dance, and psychedelia.
“Making this record was really a cathartic experience for me,” says Wright. “It’s the first record I’ve ever done, so of course there’s that, but it also helped me get through a lot of struggles with creativity. After four years of intense music school, I was feeling pretty burnt out and just wanted to get away from anything academic or virtuosic. That entire way of looking at music was pretty toxic for me, so making this record, I tried to maintain a very immediate, spontaneous, and direct workflow, which ended up being like an antidote.”
The 9 tracks that make up Wild Eyes cover a wide swath of musical territory, ranging from reflective sound-scapes and minimal anthems to sound collage and noise rock. These disparate stylistic references are held together by strands melody and the recording’s hazy, lo-fi quality, elements which prove themselves to be instrumental in supporting the album’s unity upon repeated listenings. These elements, combined with the record’s stylistic diversity, make the album’s cohesiveness all the more compelling. Again, Wright: “There’s a definite narrative within this album for me...not an explicit verbal one, but a musical one. The album is sequenced so that each song relies on the one before it for a large part of its success. This is absolutely more than just a collection of MP3s.”
“Making this record was really a cathartic experience for me,” says Wright. “It’s the first record I’ve ever done, so of course there’s that, but it also helped me get through a lot of struggles with creativity. After four years of intense music school, I was feeling pretty burnt out and just wanted to get away from anything academic or virtuosic. That entire way of looking at music was pretty toxic for me, so making this record, I tried to maintain a very immediate, spontaneous, and direct workflow, which ended up being like an antidote.”
The 9 tracks that make up Wild Eyes cover a wide swath of musical territory, ranging from reflective sound-scapes and minimal anthems to sound collage and noise rock. These disparate stylistic references are held together by strands melody and the recording’s hazy, lo-fi quality, elements which prove themselves to be instrumental in supporting the album’s unity upon repeated listenings. These elements, combined with the record’s stylistic diversity, make the album’s cohesiveness all the more compelling. Again, Wright: “There’s a definite narrative within this album for me...not an explicit verbal one, but a musical one. The album is sequenced so that each song relies on the one before it for a large part of its success. This is absolutely more than just a collection of MP3s.”
credits
released April 6, 2010
All songs written, performed, recorded, produced, and mastered by Andrew Wright in early 2010 in Brooklyn, NY.
Album artwork by Andrew Wright and Jon DeSimone
Special thanks to Liberty Ellman, Xander Naylor, and Jon DeSimone
℗&© Id Records 2010
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All songs written, performed, recorded, produced, and mastered by Andrew Wright in early 2010 in Brooklyn, NY.
Album artwork by Andrew Wright and Jon DeSimone
Special thanks to Liberty Ellman, Xander Naylor, and Jon DeSimone
℗&© Id Records 2010
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