Sub Pop have released Forth Wanderers‘ self-titled, label debut worldwide today. Forth Wanderers, featuring the standouts ‘Nevermine,’ ‘Not for Me,’ and ‘Ages Ago’ was produced and recorded by Cameron Konner in Philadelphia over 5 days in the summer of 2017. Listen to the full album below.
What people have said about Forth Wanderers:
“Forth Wanderers is nonetheless a bittersweet and refreshingly candid second record from a band that’s seemingly found its voice.” [album review] – The Line Of Best Fit
“Throughout it’s bursting with the uncontainable energy of glorious garage rock.” [album review] – Loud and Quiet
“Vocalist Ava Trilling’s songs are wistful but rarely self-pitying, and ‘Forth Wanderers’ sparkles with a pensive, but optimistic energy.” [album review] – Dork
“By playing to their strengths – creating tousled, jangly indie rock around argumentative lyrics that beg for resolution – Forth Wanderers aptly illustrate when a band is truly in sync.” [album review] – Gold Flake Paint
“Forth Wanderers thrives in distance. Singer Ava Trilling writes the lyrics in New York, guitarist Ben Guterl builds the backbone of music in Ohio. “Taste,” in particular, came from diametrically opposed places in their young love lives. Guterl worked through the song’s production to impress his now-girlfriend. Trilling writes, however, that she “was in a difficult place with my relationship at the time.” Still, the distance — emotional and physical — doesn’t undercut the dizzying intimacy of the song.” [‘Taste’] – NPR Music
“Supple yet raw, naïve and wise at the same time, and definitely a little painful. It’s captivating to encounter the talent and depth of such young guns, and Forth Wanderers are only getting better.” [‘Not for Me’] – Pitchfork
“A feral dose of guitar noise that somehow holds itself together over that four minute span. It’s a taut return, with the introspective lyricism…” [‘Not for Me’] – CLASH
“A driving slice of indie-rock that’s propelled by clashing drums and vocalist Ava Trilling’s powerful, sometimes swooning vocals.” [‘Not for Me’] – DIY
“I’m here to tell you the second single is even better — one of the best indie-rock songs of the year, in fact. Album opener ‘Nevermine’ is built around spindly guitar interplay that expands into a huge, glorious chorus, almost like the New Jersey combo’s instruments are constructing the foundation for a towering monument. It certainly sounds monumental, anyway, without being too showy about it. Ava Trilling’s first words seem to be addressing an ex: “I am the one you think of when you’re with her, and what do you have? Nothing on me.” She continues from there with a drowsy detachment in her delivery that belies the intensity of the narrative.” [‘Nevermine’] – Stereogum
“It’s a winding, restless, half-paced song in which Trilling jabs confidently at a former partner: “I am the one you think of when you’re with her.” It never quite settles down, flitting between its four sections, each of which is catchy enough to be a chorus on its own.” [‘Nevermine’] – Noisey
Forth Wanderers
Tracklisting
1. Nevermine
2. Company
3. Ages Ago
4. Taste
5. Not for Me
6. Be My Baby
7. New Face
8. Saunter
9. Tired Games
10. Temporary
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