Label: Merge
Released 6/23/2023
The duo of Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack have performed together as Wye Oak since 2006, but their new collection Every Day Like the Last: Collected Singles 2019-2023 (out June 23, 2023) represents them staking out new territory. Forging into the unknown can be terrifying—but, as Wasner notes, sitting with precarity or unfamiliarity can result in new frontiers being blown wide open. The nine songs on Every Day Like the Last, which were recorded in Wasner and Stack’s current home state of North Carolina and Virginia at venues that include Stack’s backyard studio, compiles the singles Wye Oak has released since 2019’s glowing “Fortune” and includes three new songs. The songs came from a period where Wye Oak were in flux after a decade-plus of steadily releasing albums and touring. Sonically, the collection represents Wasner and Stack getting back to basics after years their music balancing the organic and the artificial, using electronics and programming to add new textures. 2020’s unfortunately shortened JOIN tour, which brought along three other musicians to fully bring Wye Oak’s catalog to life, and Stack and Wasner’s work on other projects led to the two rethinking how Wye Oak worked.
Track listing:
- Every Day Like the Last
- I Learned It from You
- TNT
- It's Way with Me
- Fortune
- Evergreen
- Fear of Heights
- Walk Soft
- Repeat (If You Remind Me)