The Wrens Album Is Being Mastered

For almost a decade, the Wrens have toyed with fans’ emotions, offering update after update about the status of their next album. They signed a deal and shared some music. Most recently, Charles Bissel revealed that the album was done. That was almost seven months ago.

Today, the band offered another update—they’re done recording and the album has been sent out for mastering. Bissell acknowledges that fans have heard this story before:

… Sunday morning I finished & sent off the final-of-many versions of the last song to mastering. Which means that in spite of me saying I was done working on it in Dec. due illness, or that things were winding up in April (or Feb..or 2011…) it is, from my/our end, completely as-satan’s-my-witnessy all done and all off to mastering. More shockingly, I think (stress ‘think’) that it actually came out ok. And that’s me saying that. And I hate everything I’m involved in.

He says that the label should have it in hand “in the next week or two” and that “some quick artwork will be hashed out.” What’s next?

… in some pan-geologic timeframe: record comes out, we tour for a weekend, we “go away”, ill-chosen solo projects surface, vanity plates are issued, 60th birthdays are feted, reunion tours are scrapped, another documentary about the making of the documentary is announced, Kardashians come & go…the usual.

Read “Not What They Had Planned”, our feature on the Wrens. 

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