Wilderness - Wilderness - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Sharks presents their highly anticipated 2013 full length album Selfhood. The 11 song album is the band's most dynamic and explosive material to date. The band tracked the entire album live so they could best capture the energy of their live show to tape. The result is quite arguably the bands strongest and most impressive material to date. When you hear the album it's easy to see why Sharks has gained so much acclaim from their fans and critics alike.

The third full-length from Baltimore's Wilderness was conceived as one musical piece, the result of being invited to collaborate with renowned visual artist Charles Long. The eight identifiable parts of the record are not readily separated from each other; such is the flow from and into each part. The result comes across as more dynamic and the perceived space they inhabit seems more vast. Album Tracks 1. High Nero 2. Strand the Test of Time 3. (P)Ablum 4. Silver Gene 5. Own Anything 6. Chinese Whisperers 7. Soft Cage 8. <...>

Wilderness is an unconventional band from Baltimore, Maryland, whose apparent musical pedigree stems from the likes of the Fall, This Heat, Savage Republic, Public Image Limited and Joy Division - without sounding like any of them - and whose music is every bit as spiritual as it is visceral, as nuanced as it is overt, and as communal and all-embracing as it is culturally alienating and nihilistic. Embodied most recently in their second full-length record called Vessel States, the music-art of Wilderness attempts to glide above definitions or categorizations, especially those that are self-serving or manipulative. Yet the band is fully aware that striving for this kind of purity is most likely futile. Every human expression builds on or is connected to previous expressions, and the music of Wilderness will be packaged, commodified and connected to other forms of things beyond their understanding or control. This tension between the intended and the actual, and the awareness that this tension exists, may best sum up what Wilderness is all about.