The Wrens Have Finished Their New Album
For almost a decade, the Wrens have been trickling out information about the follow up to 2003′s The Meadowlands. In November, they signed a deal to release the record, which they said was almost done. Now, in a blog post written on the band’s website, guitarist Charles Bissell revealed that the album has been completed.
In the post, Bissell said that over Thanksgiving, he went to the emergency room for what turned out to be “strep pneumonia, a collapsed lung, full renal failure…the works,” which required immediate medical treatment. At one point, it appeared life-threatening. This, along with many other issues faced by the band this year, seems to have prompted the album’s completion, as he writes:
For me personally, this whole thing has changed a bunch of stuff, incl. priorities that have kept me toiling away on music to the exclusion of a lot of other things. So that’ll change. Not sure what that means but it’ll be a lot more healthy.
What it means more immediately is an end to the chasing of perfectionism with this record, which is only ever in part about the illusion of perfection anyway. And what that means is…the record’s done. It is what it is. And it’ll be fine. And that’s ME saying that. A few nuts & bolts have to be put back together when I get back home so we can ship all the rest off to mastering. But the it’s done and if the Hold Steady hadn’t beaten us to it, would probably now call it The Wrens Almost Killed Me.
So sorta hilariously anticlimactically, that’s that.
The album doesn’t yet have a title, though they did share a brief snippet of music back in July.
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