The Wrens - The Meadowlands

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2015

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Bill and Brian talk about indie kids' favorite sons of New Jersey, the Wrens, and their early aughts comeback/first-time-most-of-our-generation-heard-them album The Meadowlands (2003, Absolutely Kosher). Upside down guitars, lo-fi production, and essay-like lyricism dominate the discussions about the music. Also, talking about the greater legacy that the Wrens will leave behind forces Bill and Brian to acknowledge their own fears and anxieties about being aging songwriters in original local bands. All this thanks to a song-by-song breakdown of one of THE defining indie rock records!

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome to the great albums podcast. I'm Bill.
0:23.9	And I'm Brian.
0:24.8	And this week we are going to be doing the Rends, the Meadowlands, which is an awkward thing to say.
0:32.8	The Rends, the Meadowlands.
0:37.2	This is an album that is quite important to me because it definitely, it came into my life at a point
0:45.7	where I wasn't sure if I could still find new music to love, which sounds dumb, and that's
0:52.4	because I was 21.
0:59.1	And I was like, I remember I remember that I'm done discovering music there's nothing left for me well but I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to find something that would
1:05.4	that I loved as deeply as when I discovered something new like years prior because at that point like I hadn't
1:13.4	really found any like new band that like I really really fell in love with since I was like 18
1:18.9	you know and it was like so it had been a few years since I had found like a band to like really
1:23.5	sink my teeth into and just really fall in love with it.
1:28.7	Oh, wow.
1:29.6	See, I remember where we were.
1:33.7	I remember where we were when you got this CD.
1:39.6	I do as well.
1:40.9	Because you gave it to me.
1:43.3	At the Denny's in Lawrenceville.
1:45.7	Was it Denny's?
1:46.3	It was Denny's.
1:47.1	It wasn't Michaels?
1:48.0	No, no.
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