"Strand the Test of Time" by Wilderness

While the tense and dramatic vocals of Wilderness' James Johnson immediately bring John Lydon and Public Image Limited to mind, the music often tells a very different story. It's post-punk, but not in the Interpol 2nd edition of Joy Division kind of way. It's avant garde, but not excessively artsy. You could try to describe it as post-rock, but it's not epic in structure or volume. The bass line on "Strand the Test of Time" is precise and decisive, inching up and down at a measured pace, while the drumming is far more active, in its role in building a brooding, and ominous tone. This number is all about mood, and how that mood is broken at the moment Colin McCann's guitar enters the mix, ratcheting up the intensity with a jittery, yet somewhat anthemic riff, as if a young Edge had one espresso too many, pushing him dangerously close to manic. MP3: Wilderness - Strand the Test of Time (k)no(w)here by Wilderness is due out November 3rd on Jagjaguwar Records. Wilderness Jagjaguwar