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The Wailing Wall Does Ampeater Digital 7-Inch
Ampeater, a blog specializing in FREE digital 7-inches, has released a 2-song 7″ from our friends in The Wailing Wall. The 2 songs (”The Words We Choose” and a stripped-down version of “Hospital Blossoms”) are accompanied by one of the most thoughtful and sweet write-ups of a band that I have ever read. I’ve included an excerpt below, but the entire thing, including the music, is available HERE.
“David Foster Wallace once spoke of an epiphanic “click” he heard while reading the very best fiction (he took the word from a Yeats poem which features a line about “the click of a well-made box”), something instinctually felt but impossible to explain, and something that is curiously absent from some of the most outwardly skillful writing (Updike, in his example). To steal another phrase from Wallace, The Wailing Wall “clicks like a fucking geiger counter.” They always make those tired old chords sound like something you’ve never heard before.”