Wilder Maker - The Streets Like Beds Still Warm - VINYL LP

Brooklyn band Wilder Maker's principal songwriter, Gabriel Birnbaum says that the group's latest full-length, The Streets Like Beds Still Warm follows Inchan overall formal asymmetry, like dream logic.Inch It is richly textured, moody, and deep and is as distinctly narrative as it is literally experimental. To call it a concept album, as big as that term is, would actually be to sell it short. It is, in fact, only the first part of a concept trilogy that tells the tale of one long night in the city, from dusk to dawn. The Streets Like Beds Still Warm follows a lonely narrator as he drifts down avenues and in and out of bars and hospital rooms. He thinks on big questions and bigger questions, gets into some trouble, worries about his sick father, grapples with rivals and competitors who could be his friends but are not; he orders cocktails, dreams he is a genius, thinks about God and fate and so on. The record closes out at around 1 15am, leaving the story to be continued. If this sounds a bit noirish, that's because it is. InchFilm noir detectives always start out looking immaculate, but by the end of the film they have a torn collar, a black eye, their slacks are stained, and they've started slapping people around in desperation,Inch Birnbaum says. InchAre they the good guy anymore? I find this fascinating and I love the visual cues reflecting the internal landscape.Inch While there are no visual cues, per se, on The Streets Like Beds Still Warm, the record owes a great debut to cinematography. Impressionistic swirls of effected guitar, drums, and saxophone support Birnbaum's husky and worldweary baritone croon which sometimes echoes Bill Fay. But at times, in all it's dim-lit barroom storytelling, one may think of Tom Waits. It's a comparison that threatens both to mislead and sell short, but it's difficult not to see things while listening to The Streets Like Beds