One of our very favourite bands here at One Thirty BPM is The Wrens. Their album The Meadowlands was one of our favourites of the last decade and we have been waiting with baited breath for the follow-up.
It’s now been seven years.
Finally we have something new from this New Jersey band; a song called “Crescent.” Unfortunately it’s not clear whether this is a preview of a new album, but it is a new track and that’s good news. “Crescent” is to appear on a compilation called Dear New Orleans; a benefit album to mark the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
Check out the song below.
The full tracklist for Dear New Orleans is as follows:
01. OK Go – “Louisiana Land”
02. The Mendoza Line – “Catch a Collapsing Star”
03. The Nightwatchman (Tom Morello) – “Midnight in the City of Destruction”
04. Janet Bean and the Concertina Wire – “My Little Brigadoon”
05. Matt Sweeney and Bonnie “Prince” Billy – “Love in the Hot Afternoon”
06. Paul Sanchez – “Don’t Be Sure” [ft. Shamarr Allen]
07. Alec Ounsworth – “Dr. So and So” [ft. Al “Carnival Time” Johnson and John Boutte]
08. Steve Earle – “Dixieland”
09. Luke Reynolds – “Flood”
10. Jon Langford – “Last Fair Deal Gone Down”
11. Laura Veirs – “I Can See Your Tracks”
12. Vijay Iyer – “Threnody”
13. Jill Sobule – “Where Is Bobbie Gentry?”
14. Flobots – “Stand Up”
15. Rebecca Gates – “Doos”
16. The Wrens – “Crescent”
17. Indigo Girls – “Kid Fears” [ft. Brandi Carlile]
18. Timothy Bracy’s Collection Agency – “Matching Scars”
19. Nellie McKay – “Late Again”
20. Blind Pilot – “I Buried a Bone”
21. Mirah – “NOLA” [ft. Thao Nguyen]
22. Allison Moorer – “A Change Is Gonna Come”
23. 2nd Chief David Montana – “The Change of Heart Man”
24. Wonderlick – “The American Way”
25. Bonerama – “Mr. Go”
26. Thao Nguyen and Bonerama – “Body”
27. Erin McKeown and Bonerama – “Blackbirds”
28. Nicole Atkins and Bonerama – “When the Levee Breaks”
29. Mike Mills and Bonerama – “Ohio” [ft. Wayne Kramer and Dave Herlihy]
30. Wayne Kramer and Bonerama – “Kick Out the Jams” [ft. Mike Mills, Erin McKeown, Nicole Atkins, and Martin Perna]
31. My Morning Jacket and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band – “Carnival Time”
The album is being released on August 24th and all proceeds go to various New Orleans non-profit organisations.
