The Wrens are a great band from New Jersey that seems adverse to regular LP releases. By “regular” I mean more than once in five years. After 20 years they’ve released just four full-length albums with the last, The Meadowlands, coming out in 2003. Music magazine, Magnet, has decided to have some fun with The Wrens and their prolific silence and, late last year, began running a regular feature on their website know as “Wrens Watch“. There, they occasionally interview the Wrens’ Charles Bissell. It’s more than a little funny albeit not quite safe for work.

One of the nice bonus items that you’ll find there is a clip from the now-ongoing recording sessions for The Wrens’ next album. (Seriously. They’re really recording one.) You’ll find that in the January 26th entry. It’s a rough track but shows promise of new music that those of us who have been wearing out our copies of Meadowlands have been longing to receive.

Also, be sure to check out the updated website for The Wrens and read about their new single!

Seriously.

A new single.

Did I not mention that earlier? It’s called “Pulled Fences”, it was recorded at Abbey Road, and it’s available on iTunes. 

There’s a bit of a story as to how the song came about but I’ll leave it to the band to explain (via their blog):

 

“So years upon years ago, we swore to a pointlessly bold dare that if we ever got on the Tonight Show or Letterman, we would have to make up a song on the spot – no rehearsal, no cheating, no pre-air band huddle. This is back when Carson still hosted (Johnny not Daly) and for some reason, was our measure at the time for having ‘made it’.

“As if Johnny would have waved us over to the couch to sit next to George Gobel and be congratulated on our gumption.

“Cut to almost twenty years later, we’re invited to perform a few songs for something called the WorldSpace Sessions at Abbey Road.”

 

They’re also threatening to perform at SXSW next month so… watch for that!

I’ll leave you with a fan-produced video for the song, “Boys You Won’t”

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