NOW AVAILABLE: New Music from Latitude 49

LATITUDE 49
WAX AND WIRE

feat. compositions by Gabriella Smith, Viet Cuong, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Chris Sies, + Annika Socolofsky

out now on Bandcamp

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Cross-continental new music powerhouse Latitude 49 returns with flair and verve on their sophomore release Wax and Wire, out today on Bandcamp. The group will be celebrating the release with a show at Brooklyn's Areté Gallery on March 24th.

Visit Bandcamp to listen + support.

This dynamic collection takes the listener on a genre-bending journey, careening wildly from the visceral to the sublime. From the psychedelic pulsations of Gabriella Smith’s "Number Nine" (an homage to the Beatles’ “Revolution 9”) flows Viet Cuong’s whimsical showpiece "Wax and Wire," establishing the record’s charisma and variety right away.

Ruminant works by Annika Socolofsky and Chris Sies direct us inward: Socolofsky’s "a sense of who" challenges us to consider ourselves in light of the communities we inhabit, while "these (were) used to harm" by Latitude 49’s own Chris Sies employs effects inspired by specific songs that have been used as means of torture against a sometimes thrashing chambercore background. Two works by Sarah Kirkland Snider provide the record’s most intimate moments, with the swirling trio "Thread and Fray" unfurling tightly-knit textures while the cleansing, haunting, but ultimately hopeful "You Are Free" closes out the record in a state of utter contemplation.