Looking back on 2014, we (the Aural Wes editors) share our top 5 albums, favorite track, and most overrated album of the year as well as our most anticipated album of 2015. No year-end collective recap behemoth here, just some personal reflections on groaning Danish punk dirges, twinkly twankly jizz jazz, bangin' lifestyle rap, heady R&B from the future, syrupy personal computer music, and more. Hold each one of us accountable for this sonic smorgasbord.
Wesalums Andrew Zingg ('13) and Tobias Butler ('13) play in O Presidente, a surfy doo-wop influenced rock band from the Bay Area. O Presidente just dropped "Party with Me," a sunny, thoroughly convincing call to drop whatever you're doing and |ˈpärtē|. It's also a single off their second LP, which drops January 10th, so drop everything you might be doing then and hit up their album release show!
Zander Porter and Anne Leonardo sit down with Lum at Wesleyan's own Alpha Delta Phi Society house, where she performed to a sweaty, dark, blistering group of young people
Snuggle up to rather horny twee twinkle-tunes and go eat it (still) at Psi U.
Let's Party Hats! Hats! Hats! formed back in 2012 and has since then released two EPs, Pain Hurts and Let's Party Hats! Hats! Hats! which just dropped on Thursday. Self-described as "three friends having fun getting mad in Connecticut", the band comprising of Adam Johnson ('14), Sean Winnik ('14), and Nate Repasz ('14) lives up to the description with their spontaneous garage-punky sound.
