The Meadowlands
The Wrens
is
being hailed as a masterpiece by some of
greatest writers and publications in the world!
(special
edition-with two bonus tracks) • single:
"Hopeless"
“The Wrens are
indeed a revelation: a sound ripped apart, reassembled
and brought fantastically to life by a truly individual
quartet. A rare treasure. 9 out of 10: Album of the
Month” NME
–
Dele
Fadele
“The Meadowlands, is some kind of masterpiece: a
seamless blend of shockingly intense, in-your-face sounds
and emotions, of immediacy and distance, alienation and
engagement, the ominous and the reassuring. I hear a Neil
Young refusing to luxuriate in his melancholy, a young
David Byrne shorn of his Joe College smart-aleckery,
Springsteen minus the melodrama or even a grownup Kurt
Cobain resigned to pursuing his art through the blue-collar
wasteland.”
MOJO
–
Charles
Shaar Murray
“There has surely never been a group that undergoes
such a radical, Jekyll-and-Hyde transformation in switching
from one medium to the other as the Wrens, as those of us
who were fortunate enough to catch the handful of shows the
band played in Britain last October quickly discovered.
They erupted like a volcano. It was like watching the Clash
play a set of Gang of Four songs on steroids. As the
singer, Kevin Whelan, swung his bass around while
clambering up and leaping off every elevated surface
available, the guitarists, Charles Bissell and
Whelan’s brother Greg, lurched and lunged in a
chaotic dance of dementia at either side. It was a minor
miracle that nobody got hurt.” THE
SUNDAY TIMES –
David
Sinclair
“I keep waiting for the moment when I need to put
this away for a while, and it keeps not coming. Instead,
four years of takes and tweaks build and cohere--pealing
and shifting, wafting and pounding, sinking into babble and
soaring into the bright exultant chorus of ‘This Boy
Is Exhausted.’ Anybody who can create a record like
this deserves more than 13 thou a year. The
Meadowlands is a real winner and a
magnum opus. Grade: A” The
Village Voice - Robert
Christgau
“This has a confident swagger and endless hooks. 5
STARS” The
Sun –
Simon
Cosyns
“A meticulously constructed collage of rock tones and
an underground sensation on the brink of monster
success.” New York
Times – Hugo
Lindgren
“It's this diversity, and the balancing of clever
melodies with a seeming lack of structure, that makes the
record one of the most impressive American indie rock
albums of the last few years.” San
Francisco Weekly –
Abigail
Clouseau
“The Wrens played,
quite simply, the most amazing live show I have ever seen.
The New Jersey four-piece exude infectious, fresh guitar
pop with unparalleled passion…every song is packed
with clever, catch melodies. Live, you see every vitriolic
sneer, every choking sob.”
Nottingham
Evening Post –
Alistair
Harris