Mazes
Wooden Aquarium
Mazes have never been ones for hanging around. When they have songs, they get them out there. Completed in just two weeks between the sub-zero conditions of commuter town Cornwall, New York and the heart of Brooklyn, Wooden Aquarium marks the apex at which Mazes music to date meets. Whilst debut album A Thousand Heys was recorded on a boat and recent album Ores and Minerals was recorded across numerous takes in the back room of Dalston s Shacklewell Arms and Jack's bedroom, Wooden Aquarium has brought Cooper, drummer Neil Robinson and bassist Conan Roberts together in a studio again. Recorded completely live and laid down entirely onto beautifully thick two-inch tape, the trio also had company in enlisting the skills of Parquet Courts producer Jonathan Schenke. That sense of nostalgia is never clearer than on Universal Me , capturing Wooden Aquarium s theme of finding yourself caught between two places. Akin to Field Music s articulate songwriting prowess and the punky guitar rhythms of The Feelies or Television, Letters Between U&V is about unfinished moments, half notes or things left unsaid, whilst personal ailments ( Astigmatism ) and seesawing between extreme confidence and self doubt ( Salford ) are explored through hypnotic lo-fi pop melodies of motorik rhythms bolstered by spiky hooks and Cooper s distinctively carefree vocals.
Tracklist
1. Astigmatism
2. Salford
3. It is What It Is
4. Explode Into Colo(u)rs
5. Vapour Trails
6. RIPP
7. Letters Between U&V
8. Mineral Springs
9. Stamford Hill
10. Universal Me
11. The Third Ridge
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