Wand / Ganglion Reef
Album: Ganglion Reef   Collection:General
Artist:Wand   Added:Oct 2014
Label:God?  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2014-10-31 Pull Date: 2015-01-02
Week Ending: Jan 4 Nov 23 Nov 16 Nov 9 Nov 2
Airplays: 1 3 1 3 1

Recent Airplay
1. May 29, 2024: sunday drive
Growing Up Boys
4. Jun 04, 2015: The Final Sunset
Fire On The Mountain (I-Ii-Iii)
2. Apr 17, 2024: sunday drive
Fire On The Mountain (I-Ii-Iii)
5. Apr 07, 2015: In The Year One Thousand, Eight Thousand [SPQ01]
Broken Candle
3. Aug 20, 2020: Stranded at Settembrini's
Fire On The Mountain (I-Ii-Iii)
6. Mar 30, 2015: Shytown
Broken Candle

Album Review
DJ Away
Reviewed 2014-10-25
Big, dreamy, sludgy, heavy psych rock. Ty Segall released this via his God? Imprint on Drag City, and this feels a lot like the heavier parts of Segall’s album Manipulator. Wand ROCKED THE HELL OUT at the 2014 Burger Boogaloo in Oakland, and this album is similarly face melting. Sounds like playing Dungeons & Dragons in a giant rainbow. All hail. Favorites: 3, 4, 6, 10. No FCCs.

1. (3:07)—Slow, molten lava distortion. Kinda shoegazy in its tripped out, enveloping loudness.
2. (3:34)—Mid-tempo. Menacing polyrhythmic heavy metal blues.
3. *(2:41)—Medium-fast. Poppier, a lot like Tame Impala.
4. *(5:08)—Slow, epic, flat-out beautiful trip. Loud to quiet to loud. HELL YES.
5. (0:19)—Burst of psych noise.
6. *(3:20)—Mid-tempo, bashing, major key anthem.
7. (3:22)—Mid-tempo, funky, bubbly. Grows noisier, with guitar solos.
8. (3:43)—Mid-tempo, skull-crushing trudge. Last minute is pulsing psych.
9. (3:47)—Slow, soft, spaced-out ballad.
10. *(6:08)—Mid-tempo, sparkly, hypnotic, driving. One of my favorite song titles of 2014. Dead air from -1:00 to -0:40, hidden track of synth.

Track Listing
1. Send/Receive (Mind)   6. Flying Golem
2. Clearer   7. Strange Inertia (Crtl-Alt-Death)
3. Broken Candle   8. 6661
4. Fire On The Mountain (I-Ii-Iii)   9. Growing Up Boys
5. On Ganglion Reef   10. Generator Larping