Way Down Wanderers - Illusions (magenta Color Vinyl) - VINYL LP

Juegos Nocturnos - Trauer [VINYL LP] date 02/20/2026

Vinyl LP pressing. With their sophomore album, Illusions, the Way Down Wanderers have fine-tuned their signature blend of heartfelt songwriting, lyrical harmonies, and dance floor drumbeats. These eleven songs are informed by a diverse range of musical traditions, somewhere between bluegrass and hip-hop, and the result is an album that sounds both timeless and fresh. Since forming the band in their hometown of Peoria, IL, Collin Krause and Austin Krause-Thompson have crafted unforgettable stories of love and loss. With this latest , the brothers-in-law have shown why they are two of the best young singer-songwriters in music today. Drummer John Merikoski and bassist John Williams infuse the album with an energy that is suited for the bright lights of a festival stage, while Travis Kowalsky lays down some ripping banjo. Illusions is a powerful album that fuses a raw enthusiasm for life with the sobering reality of how quickly time passes.

Chad R. Matheny has been releasing eccentric, lyrically-denseunderground pop music since 1998, often under the name EmperorX. After training in physics, philosophy, and music composition,Matheny paused academic work and spent much of the past twodecades crossing the world on buses and bullet trains to make musicat locations ranging from a small but packed symphony hall inPortugal to an emtpy trade fair dome in northern Lebanon to literally-underground metal bars across Ukraine.He often tours alone with a guitar and synth, but sometime sharesbills with fellow travelers including Ratboys, The Hotelier, The Worldis a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die, Foxing, AJJ, TheFront Bottoms, and Xiu Xiu.He produced the new Brian Sella album Well I Mean, co-produced theSub Pop album Bits by jangle punk legends Oxford Collapse alongsideEric Topalski of Don Caballero and Storm & Stress, and composedvideo soundtrack music for non-profit organizations including PlannedParenthood and SEIU. In 2011 and 2012, Matheny's ambient workKeeling Curve was used in a multimedia installation by photographerJoel Sternfeld that was featured in a retrospective exhibition atMuseum Folkwang.