Wye Oak has gotten into the habit of releasing an album every two years (except for the three-year gap between 2011’s Civilian and 2014’s Shriek), and since their previous album, Tween, came out in 2016, we’re due. Thankfully, the duo is delivering: Wye Oak has just announced that their sixth album, The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs, will be released on April 6th via Merge Records.
They’ve marked the occasion by sharing the electronic crescendo of a title track. Press materials describe the album as “[pursuing] a litany of modern malaises, each of its dozen tracks diligently addressing a new conflict and pinning it against walls of sound, with the song’s subject and shape inextricably and ingeniously linked,” and the band wrote on Twiter, “We think it’s the best thing we’ve done and can’t wait for you to hear it.”
Listen to the song above, and find the album art, tracklist, and the band’s upcoming tour dates below.
1. “(tuning)”
2. “The Instrument”
3. “The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs”
4. “Lifer”
5. “It Was Not Natural”
6. “Symmetry”
7. “My Signal”
8. “Say Hello”
9. “Over And Over”
10. “You Of All People”
11. “Join”
12. “I Know It’s Real”
2/16 — New York, NY @ Symphony Space (Shriek suite with William Brittelle & Metropolis Ensemble)
4/06 — Iowa City, IA @ Mission Creek Festival
4/20 — Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso Noord
4/21 — Rotterdam, NL @ Motel Mozaique Festival
4/22 — Luxembourg, LU @ De Gudde Wellen
4/25 — Berlin, DE @ BiNuu
4/26 — Prague, CZ @ MeetFactory
4/27 — Vienna, AT @ Fluc
4/29 — Zurich, CH @ Bogen F
5/1 — Brussels, BE @ Les Nuits Botanique @ Rotonde
5/2 — Paris, FR @ Le Pop Up
5/3 — London, UK @ Village Underground
5/4 — Manchester, UK @ The Deaf Institue
5/5 — Liverpool, UK @ Liverpool Sound City
5/6 — Dublin, IE @ Whelan’s
5/9 — Asheville, NC @ Grey Eagle
5/10 — Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
5/11 — Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
5/13 — Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair
5/14 — Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
5/15 — Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
5/17 — Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
5/18 — Milwaukee, WI @ The Back Room at Colectivo
5/19 — St. Paul, MN @ Turf Club
5/20 — Omaha, NE @ The Waiting Room
5/21 — Kansas City, MO @ Record Bar
5/23 — Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
5/25 — St. Louis, MO @ Ready Room
5/26 — Louisville, KY @ Zanzabar
7/13 — Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall
7/15 — Seattle, WA @ Neumos
7/17 — San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
7/18 — Oakland, CA @ Starline Social Club
7/19 — Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room
