Diamond Watch Wrists - Ice Capped at Both Ends - 4.28.09
Guillermo Scott Herren is a busy guy this year. We've already released details on the upcoming Prefuse 73 album, but a scant two weeks after its release we will see the release of the Diamond Watch Wrists.
Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian serves as an oddly appropriate introduction and companion to Diamond Watch Wrists's Ice Capped at Both Ends. Created with superstar drummer Zach Hill (Hella, Marnie Stern, etc.), DWW shows an entirely new form of Herren creations, organic songs featuring Guillermo’s plaintive vocals, guitar and studio wizardry, Hill’s singular drumming as well as previously unheard nods to 60’s European acid-folk, classic American singer-songwriters and krautrock.
While Herren would call the Diamond Watch Wrists material, “simple songs about everyday things” they, of course, strike the listener as much more. Deceptively complex in their arrangements, the songs never fail to strike a fascinating balancing act between brooding and uplifting, making for an uncommonly well-rounded album.
Download: Diamond Watch Wrists - Onward Push Me Out
Ice Capped will be released on April 28th in the US.
01. My Last Time In This Place
02. Polite Passage
03. One Second Early Late
04. Onward Push Me Out
05. Diamond Falling Off My Grill
06. Dot Org Green Consumer
07. Start Wrong
08. Simple Love Notes (5 Years Later)
09. Speculative Forensic Investigation
10. Epidemic Episodes of Epidemics
11. Taped Up Swagger (High School Version)
12. Ending
