New York City (USA)-based electro post-punk trio The Wants is beginning to build momentum towards their sophomore album, Bastard, set for release on 13 June via STTT. The multifaceted unit out of New York City releases "87 Gas", the first preview of an album characterised by multi-genre appeal and unique sound.
Recorded during a period of geographic and emotional displacement, "87 Gas" is a provocative sonic landscape that challenges the boundaries between personal ambition and systemic routine. The band's self-described "No Wave / No pop techno punk" ethos finds its most articulate expression in this single, where digital and analog elements collide to create a disorienting yet compelling soundscape.
Guitarist Madison Velding-VanDam comments: "Bastard, both as an album and an experience, is an emotional purge—a meditation on isolation and loss. The story of my father's life and death loomed large as a backdrop of the writing process. I explored the darkest periods of my life, and the reality that we can all spiral into our own personal voids, unaware or unwilling to acknowledge the decay until it's too late."
Since emerging in 2017, The Wants have carved out their niche in experimental music's outer reaches. Drawing from a deep well of influences across decades and genres, The Wants forge an unlikely alliance of sounds that feels both radical and inevitable. Listen for yourself. Link
Bastars tracklist:
01. Void Meets Concrete
02. Data Tumor
03. 87 Gas
04. Disposable Man
05. All Comes At Once
06. Cruel
07. Too Tight
08. Lover Sister Mother
09. Feeling Alright
10. Explosions
11. No Need
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