NYC Supergroup Wah Together Release Debut Album
“Let’s Wah Together” out today Mar 4, 2022
on Dedstrange Records & Announce 3 Release Shows with The New Colossus Festival
Album “Let’s Wah Together” Out 3/4/22 LISTEN
Album Release Show Dates: 3/9, 3/11, 3/12 [details below]
As the economics of music-making increasingly push young artists to work alone and “in the box,” Wah Together rejects anti-social techbro musical austerity in favor of spontaneous face-to-face creation.
On their debut LP, Lets Wah Together, the NYC-based quartet of bassist Phil Mossman (ex-LCD Soundsystem), drummer Vito Roccoforte (The Rapture), producer/guitarist Steve Schiltz (Longwave), and vocalist Jaiko Suzuki (Electroputas NYC) revel in the communal delight that happens when happy accidents are caught on tape.
Tracked principally live and in close quarters, Let’s Wah Together captures the immediacy and spontaneity of a group of musicians listening to—and playing off— one another with genuine affection, curiosity, and joy.
From the skronk n’ stomp of “I’m A Swimmer” to the Japanese Yé Yé beat inflected “Sayonara,” the dense ear-busting wistfulness of “Teen Vito” and the storming acidic drive of “Out! Out! Out!”, Let’s Wah Together is a loud and commanding recommitment to the cooperative spirit and familial love that always marks New York’s most vital eras.
Let’s Wah Together is out March 4, 2022, on Dedstrange.
Purchase Let’s Wah Together at the Dedstrange Merch Stores
Watch the Music Videos for singles Sayonara and You Got The Blues here!
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About Wah Together:
New York City might be a gilded husk of its former self, but Wah Together have blown out a hole in the sweat-stained wall, churned up the asphalt, and uncovered untrammeled layers of the city’s garage/psych-underground. No mere ruddy-cheeked baby-band, Wah Together instead assembles a loose group of friends and musicians, each seminal to the city’s musical legacy.
Masterminded by multi-instrumentalist and film composer Phil Mossman (ex-LCD Soundsytem), the band met-cute in 2019 at a “chance” jam session Mossman slyly arranged in his dark DUMBO basement studio roping in long-time friend and drummer Vito Roccoforte (The Rapture) to play with guitarist and producer Steve Schiltz (Longwave).
The sound the three produced that day was an emphatic mix of contorted rave-ups, feedback-drenched space oddities, and pulsating Krautrock but it might have only remained a sprawling and allusive project the three conjured periodically if not for Jaiko Suzuki.
Suzuki, former go-go dancer, avant-garde percussionist, and occasional Coney Island “mermaid,” lent vocals to a variety of projects but never really sung in a band until being recruited by her old pal Roccoforte. Suzuki’s voice, at once both effervescent and direct, digs into her bandmates' tightly linked motorik and shoegazed jams, coaxing out hooks and adding ballast to the shattering volume they produce. Wah Together’s debut full-length Lets Wah Together is out March 4, 2022.
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