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Wand
In a Capsule Underground
Drag City - Cat No: DC922
- updated:2025-03-13
A mystical catharsis of roaring noise and psychedelia. Wand, the LA-based US indie psych-rock band who have released much of their work through the esteemed Drag City, finally saw their early-era demo and unreleased track collection "In a Capsule Underground" — originally issued as a digital download in 2017 — pressed to vinyl in 2024.
Track List
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A1. Send/Receive (Alpha NM)
3:14 -
A2. Clearer mix 2
3:37 -
A3. Broken Candle
2:58 -
A4. Fire On The Mountain Parts I-II-III
4:16 -
A5. Flying Golem
3:22 -
A6. Fugue State 23-23-23
3:31 -
B1. Strange Inertia Ctrl Alt Death
3:45 -
B2. Growing Up Boys
3:19 -
B3. Generator Larping
4:22 -
B4. The Screaming Eye 2
2:45 -
B5. The Leap
4:05 -
B6. Gong Report 4_11
3:38
Demos and unreleased songs from Wand’s salad days, the time of the immortal Ganglion Reef. Available for download since 2017, In a Capsule Underground is at last firmly sunk into vinyl grooves that realize its fullest potential in a listener’s ears. These light, fizzy versions have distinctive, gleaming magic energies all of their own and they fly thrillingly through the air. Catch a wave through beautifully-abandoned space on your turntable eternal!
Hard to believe this is just demos and unreleased material — the quality is that good. Rather than raw first-impulse energy, it's experimental and introspective. Grainy fuzz guitars glitter kaleidoscopically, and the rough-edged psychedelia sparks off into territory bordering on contemporary classical and ambient. Some may well prefer this to the more polished sound of their recent work. A record that should hold up for any listener, any time. (Original Japanese text by Adachi)