Aeon Station - Queens

Aeon Station - Queens

Aeon Station - "Queens" from the 2021 album Observatory on Sub Pop.

After 18 years of waiting for the Wrens to follow up their beloved 2003 triumph, The Meadowlands, we’ve finally received new music from them. Well, sort of. Frustrated with his bandmate Charles Bissell’s endlessly tinkering with his half of the planned follow-up record alongside a dispute over money cuts, Kevin Whelan is releasing his portion of songs under the name Aeon Station on December 10th. It’s a heartbreaking way to receive them, but we’ll take what we can get!

The lead single and our Song of the Day, “Queens,” was unveiled in September and is so much more than we could’ve expected. A climactic five-minute epic, the song opens as a synthy slow-burner but builds into a propulsive, thrashing rocker only to crash to its emotional guitar-strummed ending. With lines like, “You said it was all in,” it’s difficult to not read the song as Whelan’s pointed message to his former bandmate.

Whelan claims the song was inspired by one of his all-time favorite songs, “The Winner Takes it All” by ABBA. “It’s about betting on the real you,” he explains in the press release. “Like a game of high-stakes poker, you push all your chips to the center of the table and aren’t afraid to go “all in.” When the New York Times asked Whelan in their profile on his new project about whether the song was a breakup song, he responded “More like post-break-up,” Whelan said, “when you find the strength to get on with your life.”

Read the full post on KEXP.org

Support the show: https://www.kexp.org/donate

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Avsnitt(1757)

Quelle Chris - Alive Ain't Always Living

Quelle Chris - Alive Ain't Always Living

Quelle Chris - "Alive Ain't Always Living" from the 2022 album Deathfame on Mello Music Group. Fresh off co-composing part of the score for the Oscar-winning film Judas and The Black Messiah, rapper Q...

23 Maj 20224min

Damien Jurado - Taped In Front Of A Live Studio Audience

Damien Jurado - Taped In Front Of A Live Studio Audience

Damien Jurado - Taped in Front of a Live Studio Audience from the 2022 album Reggae Film Star on Maraqopa. Longtime KEXP-favorite Damien Jurado is on the heels of releasing his 18th album Reggae Film ...

20 Maj 20222min

James and the Cold Gun - Seven

James and the Cold Gun - Seven

James and the Cold Gun - "Seven" from the 2022 False Start EP on Venn Records. With a sound that’s miles away from the Kate Bush song they’re named after, the two James’ of James and the Cold Gun - Ja...

19 Maj 20223min

Nina Kohout - Moonlight

Nina Kohout - Moonlight

Nina Kohout - "Moonlight" from the 2022 Pandemonium EP on Deadred Records. When Slovakian artist Nina Kohout released her first single "Blue Sunray" back in 2020, she landed the Newcomer of the Year a...

18 Maj 20224min

alyona alyona - Рідні мої (feat. Jerry Heil)

alyona alyona - Рідні мої (feat. Jerry Heil)

alyona alyona - "Ridni moi (feat. Jerry Heil)," a 2022 single on ENKO. For Easter this year, Ukrainian rapper alyona alyona shared a plea to celebrate and to uphold traditions with her latest single "...

17 Maj 20222min

Hazel English - Summer Nights

Hazel English - Summer Nights

Hazel English - "Summer Nights," a 2022 self-released single. On her forthcoming EP Summer Nights (out June 17th), Hazel English teams up with producer Jackson Phillips (Day Wave) for a "short story"-...

16 Maj 20223min

Ben Zaidi - Jerusalem.

Ben Zaidi - Jerusalem.

Ben Zaidi - "Jerusalem" from the 2022 album Acre of Salt on Nettwerk. “What are you?” is an eye-rolling question people of mixed heritages never cease to get asked and often have no idea how to answer...

13 Maj 20225min

Fontaines D.C. - Roman Holiday

Fontaines D.C. - Roman Holiday

Fontaines D.C. - "Roman Holiday" from the 2022 album Skinty Fia on Partisan. In April, Irish post-punkers Fontaines D.C. released their third studio album Skinty Fia. Their first record since relocati...

12 Maj 20224min

Populärt inom Nöje

mellan-himmel-och-jord-med-jlc
badfluence
mardromsgasten
filip-fredrik-svarar
nemo-moter-en-van
fordomspodden
schulman-show
skalla-dagen-med-mia-skaringer
schlagerkoll-special
rss-p3-musikdokumentar
dialogiskt
podme-bio-4
chilla-med-de-vet-du
fem-i-topp
hollywood-love-stories-3
gott-snack-med-fredrik-soderholm
hemma-hos-strage
hundaren-motgangspodden-av-tomas-andersson-wij
skandal
mannen-utan-spar