Thursday 14th October 2010

WET WINGS – “WHISPER ALWAYS”

In the primordial soup of a pre-internet world, dislocation and isolation made sense as realistic consequences of geography. Where once we would have sought solutions to such perceived problems, now caught in a matrix of hyperconnectivity we can only long for a return to those ideals. To be left alone and to leave the world be, equally.

Wet Wings are from New Zealand and that’s as far away from me as I can imagine. And while the internet brings them knocking at my door, they’re trapped in a bubble that means the outside world might be looking in, but they’re not looking out. Eyes closed. Swaying. And just singing and breathing and forgetting.

Like fellow anitpodeans, The Go-Betweens once sang, the world is too big or too small. Wet Wings feel that burden in their every pulse, Bandcamp or no Bandcamp.

DOWNLOAD: Wet Wings – “Whisper Always”

(Photo: Dave Geeting)