The Wrens were recently invited to play for the WorldSpace Sessions at Abbey Road. The outcome? A mostly improvised song by the name “Pulled Fences”.

Here’s the story:

So Kev wrote down the chords for one of his demo songs (which was just recently released as ‘In Turkish Waters’ for the Fake Bookshelf issue of the nifty Australian magazine, the Lifted Brow ), and what you hear on the single is the first run-through of a song the rest of us hadn’t heard before with guitars made up on the spot, drums, piano, singing and lyrics, all sort of improvised.

Still incredible nonetheless. They have some great photos of the show as well as a limited edition t-shirt to commemorate the event.

And the moment we’ve all been waiting for. The announcement of the new album, or at least the recording of it:

Lastly, about that next album…all this stuff – the single, the site, the new bowlcuts – is a way for us to kick off making new music. And with all the work we’ve done behind-the-scenes in the last couple of years to change & streamline how we go about doing the poopoo that we do, there should be plenty of it. Stress ‘should’. But Kev has already demo’ed over 100 songs since we showed him that microphones are “like your ears, Kevin” last summer.

So all that’s the typically long-butted way of saying that a week from Monday – that’s the 19th – we reconvene in the basement and start recording music to follow-up the Meadowlands.
And we’ll see you in Austin in March.

Thanks as always,

the wrens

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-Evan