Wye Oak "Civilian + Cut All the Wires: 2009 - 2011" Color:2xLP Green Swirl The same dark lushness echoes

The same dark lushness echoes through this album as those bands' works

Listening to it

with it's thumping piano and full-band composition highlighting Rateliff's ability to seamlessly shift from pained to hopeful

Double-sided lyrics insert included

Wye Oak "Civilian + Cut All the Wires: 2009 - 2011" Color:2xLP Green Swirl The same dark lushness echoesTen years after it's release, Wye Oak's Civilian remains a raw, sinewy punch of a record bleak and intense and lonely and self assured all at once. The album unravels with the sort of self questioning and uncertainty that come with youth, and it's specific confidence in unflinchingly probing all of those emotions, feeling them to their deepest extent even when it's tearing you apart at the seams. When Andy Stack and Jenn Wasner released Civilian, it