Wendy Eisenberg - Auto (October 16, 2020) Album

username · Aug 26, 2020

Out on Ba Da Bing records. Single reminds me of Cate Le Bon mixed with the noisiness of Empath or something.

1. I Don't Want To
2. Centreville
3. No Such Lack
4. Far Be IT
5. AOB
6. Give It a Year
7. Futures
8. Happier
9. The Star
10. Genre Fiction
11. The Moon
12. Slow Down
13. Hurt People

Drawing the connections between Wendy Eisenberg’s releases feels like undertaking a wide-ranging investigation. Albums of wildly inventive guitar, tempo-shifting avant rock and curiously leftfield pop fit together as offerings of Eisenberg’s curious mind. On Auto, their most innovative and inner-reaching album yet, Eisenberg explores emotional, subjective truth, and how it interacts with an objectivity no person alone can grasp. Inspired by the solo work of Mark Hollis (Talk Talk) and David Sylvian’s Blemish, with playing skills that have already seen them climbing Best Guitarist lists and an unvarnished vocal immediacy, Wendy Eisenberg has created an album of subtle display that resonates with maximal impact.

Auto has multiple meanings. First, automobile: “A lot of these songs were written about and mentally take place when I’m in the car on my way to gigs,“ says Eisenberg. Immediate melodies came to them on these trips, to which they’d later add complex guitar parts. And automata: “I make myself into a machine, which is why everything that’s played is precise.” Finally, they frame their work in the literary technique of auto-fiction, “the semi-fictionalized presentation of the self in a narrative form of growth,” as Eisenberg sees it.

The album served as a means toward working through emotional conflicts from adolescent trauma and PTSD, and dissects the dissolution and conflict that led towards the breakup of their former band. With much of it written while its events played out, Auto faces the grief of losing what one thinks is their future while experiencing a dramatic reshaping of their past; it delves openly into the limited nature of one person’s narrative.

After making a few efforts to record Auto, Eisenberg ultimately chose to collaborate with childhood friend Nick Zanca, who contributes electronic elements and production. Mirroring the personal and organic offered by Eisenberg, synthetic sounds form a kind of boundary or context for everything. They “sound like commentary on songs that were written from an organic or subjective perspective,” says Eisenberg. Their place on the album is integral for Eisenberg’s goal “to outweigh the subjectivity of normal singer-songwriter guitar songs with the objectivity of electronic sound.”

username · Aug 26, 2020

@OhTheWater Nick Zanca/Mister Lies produced and played on this, may be of interest

OhTheWater · Aug 26, 2020

username said:

@OhTheWater Nick Zanca/Mister Lies produced and played on this, may be of interest

Hell ya, saw him (or maybe someone else) hyping it a few weeks back

ItsAndrew · Aug 27, 2020

I’ll check this out, this single sounds good

username · Sep 16, 2020

username · Oct 12, 2020

Record is shaping up nicely!

username · Dec 11, 2020

New "self-proclaimed 'avant butt-rock'" band with members Birthing Hips, Landowner, and Tortured Skull (I don't know who any of these bands are but maybe others do lol). Album out February 5 on Exploding in Sound.

ItsAndrew · Jan 13, 2021

This Editrix song rules

username · Feb 1, 2021

Honestly think I’m more into these Editrix tracks than most of this album

username · Feb 5, 2021

Out now

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