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The Wirelight – Megaturquoise
Upon hearing the sprawling, shimmering music on The Wirelight’s Megaturquoise, you’d be forgiven if you think it to be the work of a well-established rock band. In actuality, The Wirelight is the recording nom de plume for Atlanta-based musician Lewis Beard, who combines singer-songwriter profundity with studio ingenuity on an album that represents nothing less than a tour de force.
Perhaps it’s no surprise then to hear that there was a protracted gestation period for this album. “I’ve been working on Megaturquoise probably way longer than I’d like to admit,” Beard says. “I guess I got going on the album in mid-2018. The problem was I got so much better at what I was doing while making this album that I had to keep going back to the first couple songs and patching them. It was kind of like a snake eating its tail.”
Although the playing on the album is about 90 percent Beard, he did reach out to certain specialists for help with some of the more ornate instrumentation, like trumpet or banjo. “Most of my songs start out with myself on acoustic guitar,” he says. “But once I hear it, it’s like there’s so much more that I can do with this. I don’t just want to record a two-track song with my vocals and guitar. These songs sort of ballooned out into much more than what they started out as in every single case.”
While you can hear the acoustic origins of many of these songs in their early moments, they rarely stay in one place for long. Moody strumming in tracks like “Part Of This” and “Everything’s Cool” eventually give way to crunching electric guitars. “Mostly Rain” incorporates Americana touches like steel guitar but morphs into a Beatlesque bridge. And Beard is particularly proud of the massive closing track “Cardinal Red,” which seems to throw everything but the kitchen sink into the mix while maintaining cohesion.
“For me to cobble together a song that’s five-and-a-half minutes long felt like an achievement in itself really,” Beard says of “Cardinal Red.” “Once I realized that I had these multiple tiers in it, it became a quest to see how big I can build up a song, before I can dial it all the way back. It has two big cresting waves in it. It’s so big, so long and so dramatic, I don’t know how I could ever play it live. It would need ten people to play it.”
Lyrically, Beard manages to tap into emotions that are both strikingly personal and big-picture relevant, with an overriding sense of wistful regret hanging over everything. “When the end comes, there is no communion/Everything breaks down, everything bends,” he sings on “Bend.” “You were the closest call, and now you’re gone,” laments the narrator of “Miss You.” And the album’s final lines seem to sum up an entire generation’s doubt: “All the best things we intend/Now I don’t know.”
Beard honed his craft even as a teen, when he first received an acoustic guitar and gravitated toward the creative side of music. “I started writing songs almost immediately, which I’ve since learned is not that typical,” he says. “For me it was like I don’t even want to learn covers that much. I want to write my own stuff. I like music so much, so I want to write my own. I’ve got demos and notes and songs from me at age 15 that are just fucking terrible. But they do exist. I got going pretty early.”
After playing in a variety of bands and releasing music sporadically both solo and with others, Beard feels that, with Megaturquoise, he has reached a new level in his career. “I think it’s a matter of confidence,” he explains. “I’ve become so much more confident in my songwriting. At this point, I feel like I can sit down and write a song and feel pretty good about it. For a long time, there was a lot more second-guessing about it. Like ‘Oh, is this melody any good? Does this have any legs? Is it going anywhere?’ Now I feel like I know what I’m doing more than I ever have before. That’s a pretty big step forward for me.”
And he’s also OK that the album took a while to create. “I think it’s a double-edged sword for sure,” he admits. “It can be a lot. But I think the ultimate outcome was a good one because I’m more proud of this stuff than anything I’ve recorded before.”
Besides this wonderful new album, the other good news is that Beard feels we won’t have to wait so long to hear more from The Wirelight. “Eight songs in three years every time won’t get you anywhere,” he laughs. “Hopefully, this is just the liftoff point for more expedient recording in the future.”
Americana UK weighs in on June Star’s latest single, “Seven Pieces,” calling it “a perfect electric folk-rock arrangement which may have you thinking of The Jayhawks.”
June Star goes under the name Andrew Grimm in the real, and he’s a mightily productive practitioner of Americana music. ‘Seven Pieces‘ is taken off his upcoming album ‘How We See it Now,’ which is due out April 16th. It marks his eleventh album in just six years. And not just quantity, there’s quality involved too as ‘Seven Pieces‘ demonstrates – multiple layers of messages appear in the lyrics, whilst the tune is carried by a perfect electric folk-rock arrangement which may have you thinking of The Jayhawks.
Listen: Captain Americana playlist for 3/15/21
Listen to this week’s Captain Americana Spotify playlist featuring:
Coma Girls – Halfway Home
Phoebe Bridgers, Maria Taylor – Summer’s End – Spotify Singles
The Armadillo Paradox – Reincarnated Werewolf Astronaut
Kacey Musgraves – Rainbow Stew – Live
Emily Moment – Master of One
Willie Nelson, Kenny Chesney – Pancho And Lefty – Live
Parker Smith – High Road
Keith Richards – Sing Me Back Home – Live
Jon LaDeau, Emily Jackson – Cemetery Road
Christian Lee Hutson, Shamir – Just Like Heaven
Katie Jo – Looking
David Quinn – Let Me Die with My Boots On
Josh Merritt – Tonya Jo
Matthew Check – Good Old Jonah
Wayne Graham – Never Die
Martin Ruby – Sebastopol
James Houlahan – Walking Through the Fire
Stuffy Shmitt -The Last Song
Farees – Empire Man
Simona Smirnova – The Quote
Spencer Burton – Memory Lane
Book Club – Beautiful There
Andrew Weiss – Spare Me
Louien – Better Woman
Anna Ash – Fire Season
The Pine Hill Haints – Back to Alabama
Fort Frances – The Year of Impossibilities
H.C. McEntire – ‘Til I Get It Right
David Starr – Gotta Serve Somebody
Emma Swift – The Man In Me
Stephen Kellogg – I’ve Had Enough
Greensky Bluegrass – A Letter to Seymour 1/15: The Pageant Theatre – Live
Amanda Shires – That’s All
Laura Fell – Every Time
The Northern Belle, Siv Jakobsen, Louien – No Rush
Forget Mej – The Valiant Ones
Listen: State of the Art Spotify playlist for 3/15/21
Listen to this week’s State of the Art Spotify playlist featuring:
Dylan Chambers – Some Kind of Happy
Jenny Lewis, Serengeti – Idiot
K Michelle Dubois – Firestar (Baby Robot Records)
Sharon Van Etten, IDLES – Peace Signs
Coma Girls – Halfway Home (Baby Robot Records)
Grouplove – Deadline
Guitarmy of One – Overtones of Hercule and Holmes
Lucy Dacus – Thumbs
Blue Water Highway – Grateful
Crumb – Trophy
This Way to the EGRESS – Make It Out Alive
Double Lyrical – Cypher 2021 (feat. Futuristic, Abhi the Nomad, Abstract, Murs, JZAC, Enkay47, Kam Michael, Cyrus, Justin Starling & Matthew Tuck)
Karaoke – Mantra
Matt and Kim – You Don’t Own Me (Lesley Gore cover)
Parker Woodland – Later Than We Think
Carissa Johnson, The Cure-Alls -So Far So Good
Simona Smirnova – The Quote – Original soundtrack to The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928 French silent film directed by Carl Dreyer)
Juana Everett – Fake Love
Stetch Panic – Batibat
Kurt Deemer Band – World Upside Down
You, Me and This Fuckin’ Guy – Garden
Triptides – Let It Go (Alive Naturalsound Records)
U.S. Girls – Junkyard
Dungeon Crawl – Natural 20
Fresh – Girl Clout
Skullcrusher – Storm in Summer
Ryley Walker – Axis Bent
The Natvral – Sun Blisters (Kip Berman of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart)
Really From – Quirk
METZ – Acid
Middle Kids – Cellophane (Brain)
Ditchbird (aka Tony Petersen) shares “In it Together” exclusive over at Under the Radar, the latest single from his debut LP, Real Enough for You Now
On Real Enough For You Now, Petersen’s influences coalesce into a folk-influenced sound that pays tribute to his longtime love for Springsteen, The Replacements, and Neil Young. Ditchbird has now returned with the newest single from the record, “In It Together,” premiering with Under the Radar.