The first song on the sophomore album by the Wagner Logic is called “Waiting for Snow.” Given that the band is from Alaska, we’re guessing it’s never a very long wait.

Snow jokes aside, the Alaska thing is significant: the song is like a photo negative of that psychedelic California sound from the ’60s, with reverb-heavy, lo-fi vocals, swirling bursts of noise and big, stinging guitars. Instead of evoking hazy sunshine, though, the tune captures the chill and windy desolation of six months of winter in a Kasilof, a town known best for salmon fishing and dog sledding.

It’s from the self-titled second album by the two-man band (James Glaves and Jeremy Wagner founded the band in 2000 as a lo-fi basement recording project). “The Wagner Logic” follows the band’s 2008 debut, “Easiest to Grab.”

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Waiting for Snow mp3

February 1, 2010 at 12:00 pm | Share |