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Eerie Wanda

Internal Radio

    A cinematic ocean of sound. Eerie Wanda's Marina Tadic draws you into her inner worlds on these 11 new songs produced by Kramer (Galaxie 500, Unrest, Ween, Daniel Johnston.) On Internal Radio, the new album by Eerie Wanda, visual artist and musician Marina Tadic welcomes you to her inner world. Guided by intuition, Tadic's songs use haunting, ethereal space, growing whole universes from the seeds of ideas. Internal Radio documents Tadic becoming the artist she wants to be, working through some things, and even exorcizing a few demons.

    The result is the most realized Eerie Wanda album yet, building on the project's guitar pop past for a more experimental, other worldly, serious grown-up affair that ventures into sensitive, motional territory.

    "Pet Town is delightfully airy; a set of songs that have drifted in on a breeze from some strange and foreign landscape you won't find on any map.” Gold Flake Paint.

    “Tadic’s melody here is part of that Brian Wilson lineage … she sets those notes adrift with a casually graceful minimalism… It evokes a pleasant stroll through a city at the moment when night begins to fall on a daydream.” Stereogum.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Sail To The Silver Sun
    2. NOWx1000
    3. Long Time
    4. On Heaven
    5. Confess
    6. Nightwalk
    7. Someone's In My House
    8. Sister Take My Hand
    9. Birds Aren't Real
    10. Puzzled
    11. Bon Voyage

    For Dutch/Croatian songwriter and visual artist Marina Tadic, Pet Town represents time well spent in one’s own shell. Her second LP as Eerie Wanda (and first for Joyful Noise Recordings), Pet Town is a stripped down spectral manifestation, anchored by Tadic’s wistful lyrics and self possessed vocal delivery. Mixed by producer Jasper Geluk, the album is perched in warm, homespun recordings live drums are replaced with handclaps, finger snaps, and a Roland-CR 78 drum machine, enhancing the music’s tactile and intimate headspace. Using minimal recording techniques, Tadic shaped these ten songs on sheer intuition, while drawing inspiration from solitude: how it can be both a state of euphoria but also one of loneliness of inner meditation and outer yearning.

    Echoing the sonorous gleam of West Coast pop, opening song "Pet Town" initially sounds like a love letter to one’s hometown, as both a tangible and emotional sanctuary. Between the lines, Tadic grapples with the sudden absence of shiny beacons that once enriched her life. "Hands Of The Devil" casts spells of attraction with its hypnotic flamenco cadence, whereas the humdrum amble of "Sleepy Eyes" evokes a rude awakening from those very spells. Tadic is still left guessing how Pet Town came to be, exactly. “I wrote the songs over a period of time spent inside my shell, and I needed that time. Not escaping it brought me a lot of growth.” Like some mysterious shamanic voice from the future, Eerie Wanda hushes turbulent peaks and valleys into a comforting, deft equilibrium. “I love to think I'm connected with some other dimension which sends me the songs and I can catch them if I'm in the right zone.” 

    STAFF COMMENTS

    Barry says: Warm and intimate, Eerie Wanda is the counterfoil to the loud and chaotic musical world of today. Easily drifting between stripped-back psychedelic folk, worldly rhythms and rich, anthemic indie. It really is a beautiful mix of sounds, and one put together with Tadic's trademark skill.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Pet Town
    2. Big Blue Bird
    4. Rockabiller 
    5. Magnetic Woman 
    6. Moon 
    7. Sleepy Eyes 
    8. The Intruder
    9. Couldn't Tell 
    10. Hands Of The Devil 
    11. Truly.

    Eerie Wanda is the name given to the relentlessly memorable recorded results of an album delivered by Croatian/Dutch singer-songwriter Marina Tadic, w/ a little help from her friends, including the phenomenal rhythm section of JACCO GARDNER's band. Throughout the album, Eerie Wanda displays a somewhat magical ability of using somewhat standard song structures as the skeletons of their sound, but replacing the dead marrow of those bones with a unique & enlivening mixture of dizzy joy and sparkling sonic lucidity. Tadic's voice is as central as anything else to the album's success: it's a two-toned, barely-accented gem of sweetness & melancholy, a distant cousin to both Hope Sandoval & "I Am the Cosmos" -era Chris Bell. 


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