New Song Of The Day: Wye Oak – It Was Not Natural

Wye Oak (Jenn Wasner & Andy Stack) have released the second single from their upcoming new album, The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs.

The song is It Was Not Natural and the album will be released on April 6th.

Here’s the record company blurb:

The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs contains the biggest, broadest, boldest music Wye Oak have ever made, and today, the duo of Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack provide a song that exemplifies the band at their most enlightened.

During the intoxicating “It Was Not Natural,” a weary walk through the woods unearths a discarded antler, a talisman that provokes deep questions about our work lives, social codes, and romantic mores. The music—a sophisticated tessellation of pounded piano and loping bass, scattered drums and chirping synthesizer—is as complex and ponderous as the issues themselves. “It Was Not Natural” is Wye Oak at their most sophisticated, navigating life’s difficulties with the nuance and power they demand.

Jenn Wasner offers the following: “This is a story about finding an object of uncertain origin whilst walking through the woods. Or, if you’d rather: it’s about exploring the space between the things that we are socialized to believe about ourselves, and the actual truth of our nature—learning how to push the limits of the systems we’ve put in place to help ourselves make sense of chaos.”

Watch the still-fresh music video for the title track from The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs ahead of the album’s release on April 6 in New Zealand via Merge Records on CD, Digital, plus standard vinyl LP and a limited edition “sand & sky” (opaque beige & translucent blue) colour vinyl release.