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Hometown: Atlanta, GA
Label: Livewire Recordings
Website: warmwake.com
Sounds Like: The Shins, The Beatles, Band of Horses, Neil Young, Kurt Vile
Genre: Alternative
A New full length LP, Night Wounds, will be released Spring 2012!
"Inspired by the bare-bones pop prowess of musicians like Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash, the members of Atlanta, GA's King Lear Jet, a group that had some success peddling songs to shows like Felicity and Dawson's Creek, transformed themselves into Warm in the Wake in the early 2000s. The group, which retained King Lear Jet's original lineup of Alabama natives Chris Rowell (vocals), James Taylor, Jr. (drums), and brothers Andy and Daniel Barker (bass and keyboards, respectively) and guided their sound into the kind of lush, cosmic, folky terrain that nodded to rootsiness of alt-country rockers like Wilco and the psychedelic swirliness of acts like the Apples in Stereo and XTC. Warm in the Wake's debut EP, Port of Quick Returns, was released in 2003. Another EP, Gold Dust Trail, and the group's debut full-length, American Prehistoric, followed four years later." - Margaret Reges | ALLMUSIC GUIDE
"Speak Plainly encompasses its creators' past lives as farmers, audio-visual techs and book peddlers, in an EP chock full of precise, organic production flowing through intelligent, agrarian narratives."
Claire Ashton - Paste Magazine
"Throughout the EP comparisons can be made between Warm in the Wake and The Shins, Teenage Fan Club or Beach House. However, for the most part the Georgia group maintains its individual integrity by weaving consistent songwriting with eclectic experimentation."
Beth Malone - Performer Magazine
"These guys continue to be about as good as indie pop gets."
AbsolutePowerPop.com
"Celestial and tidal, it offers the most zoned-out, stoned-immaculate tones of their cosmic Americana thus far, like they recorded the whole thing in some sunken castle."
Jeff Clark - Stomp & Stammer
