{"id":106,"date":"2019-12-10T23:27:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T23:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.richbradley.org\/songs\/?p=106"},"modified":"2020-04-25T17:39:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T17:39:56","slug":"crescent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richbradley.org\/songs\/201x-favorites\/crescent\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCrescent\u201d \u2013 The Wrens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Wrens - Crescent\" width=\"780\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-5JUY1WhtYs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had the opportunity to listen to The Wrens\u2019 new LP in November 2016. If you\u2019ve heard it too, it was almost certainly in the same place I did: Charles Bissell\u2019s basement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Wrens are one of rock\u2019s great hard luck stories, an energetic band from New Jersey armed with memorable hooks, furious guitars and smart, heartfelt lyrics, foiled by a cynical label that dumped them to focus on turning Creed into stars. The Wrens spent the latter half of the \u201890s labelless and adrift before releasing their third LP, <em>The Meadowlands<\/em>, on another indie in 2003.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Meadowlands<\/em> is my favorite album of the \u201800s, teeming with resentment, world-weariness and heartbreak like no other. I\u2019ve yet to hear a more perfectly sequenced record, one that so elegantly builds to an explosive finish without losing any of its power after countless listens.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Post-<em>Meadowlands,<\/em> The Wrens were poised to get some long overdue, well-earned recognition. Instead, we\u2019re entering year 17 with no new Wrens album. I\u2019ve nearly doubled in age waiting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the band has largely moved on to quiet professional and family lives, singer\/guitarist Charles Bissell continues to hack away at the record in his basement studio. A few years ago, he generously invited fans on Twitter to come to his home in Brooklyn to listen to it. I took him up on it, and ended up being the only visitor on that particular evening. So not only did I get to hear this music I\u2019d been waiting for on the bandleader\u2019s headphones while he walked in and out of the room, I got to ask him tons of questions and had an amazing conversation with one of my heroes. It was one of the coolest experiences of my life, which I could go on about but won\u2019t here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, Charles said the album was virtually complete and headed to mastering for the second time. This was over three years ago. The man has a vision, and as he\u2019s said repeatedly throughout this decade, \u201cit&#8217;s done when it&#8217;s done.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bissell has made some fragments of evidence available to the public, including two full songs. One is \u201cThree Types of Reading Ambiguity,\u201d released on a limited edition cassette (he handed me one on my way out the door, and it is fantastic). The other is a fleshed out demo called \u201cCrescent,\u201d released on a benefit compilation way back in 2010. \u201cCrescent\u201d sounds like R.E.M. circa 1984 in the best possible way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I noticed that only a trace of \u201cCrescent\u201d appeared on the album-in-progress as a brief interstitial, I tried to advocate for its inclusion in full. Charles was very gracious about this, but understandably it isn\u2019t my call to make. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In any case, the album is amazing and I hope you get to hear it. Maybe next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the opportunity to listen to The Wrens\u2019 new LP in November 2016. If you\u2019ve heard it too, it was almost certainly in the same place I did: Charles Bissell\u2019s basement. 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