MAGNET named this album one of the 60 best records of the last 10 years. A band with a back story that reads like a Chuck Palahniuk novel (male absurdity, futile ambition, adolescent maturity, acid wit, and a Pixies cover). This album makes me want to send the rich dudes in The Strokes/Rooney/Weezer/Phantom Planet to New Jersey for seven years and make them eat dirt and work McJobs until they come up with something half as wounded and inventive as "The Meadowlands." A masterwork.

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'One of the best bands with the worst luck, New Jersey's the Wrens were establishing themselves as one of the catchiest and most thoughtful indie rock groups of the '90s when label problems prevented them from releasing another album for seven years. The group ? guitarist/vocalist Charles Bissell, guitarist Greg Whelan, bassist/vocalist Kevin Whelan, and drummer Jerry MacDonnell ? formed in the late '80s and went through several names before settling on Low. Unaware of the slowcore band already named Low,...   [ read more ]

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The Wrens were a woefully under-recorded doo wop group from the Morrisania section of the Bronx led by singer Bobby Mansfield, and this disc represents their complete recorded legacy. Counting unreleased material and alternate takes, the group recorded 14 tracks for George Goldner's Rama and Gee labels between 1954 and 1956, after which the group simply evaporated. The Wrens had a somewhat harder R&B edge than many of their genre contemporaries, and why they didn't generate more suc...   [ read more ]

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