Hailing from Copenhagen, Denmark, Christian Skibdal and Mads Gräs make up psych duo The Wands. This pair pulls no punches with that subgenre tag, either; if I wasn’t sitting here at my laptop listening, I’d swear I woke up in 1968.
As the lead single from their forthcoming debut, “The Dawn” impeccably conveys its namesake confluence of day and night. Nimble glints of light emanating from the clean guitar noodlings repeatedly poke through the shrouded, reverberating ambience. Can you picture maybe sitting on a fog-swirled mountaintop at sunrise and having a fairy tale read to you by one of those Lord Of The Rings treemen – toasted out on cheeba? That’s “The Dawn” and it’s magnificent.
The track’s backed with B-side “Totem” which spoils us with more of the same only – midway through – they evidently drug up an acid-addled Ian Anderson and set him loose on flute. Those living perilously on the cutting edge may ask why you would need this type of thing today. I say forget needs, why wouldn’t you want it?
“The Dawn” is out 14 April on Levitation & Fuzz Club and The Wands play its launch show 13 April at Birthdays in London. Listen to the track below.
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