Wimps Release "City Lights" Album and "Lake Washington" Video
Wimps released their "City Lights" LP on Youth Riot Records today, and unveiled the video for "Lake Washington" to celebrate....
"For the past 2 years, we have thrown a free community concert at Seward Park, which is a public space on the banks of Lake Washington, a favorite summertime spot for us" says bassist Matt Nyce adding "These shows were especially meaningful for us during the pandemic when we were feeling isolated from our friends. We got sent some great cell phone footage after the fact and thought it would make a great video, so here it is!"
Wimps are at it again with City Lights, another slacker punk moshterpiece ready for the internet to gobble up. Ratner offers stark and playful wordage melding minimalist hooky riffage to cover such prescient topics as the rise of ubiquitous ai (Mind Reader); loneliness, growing inequality, and the loss of community and self (City Lights); a yearning for a return to a feral past (Animal); pollution and climate terrorism (Lake Washington), creating life (Mom) and promising a maybe undeliverable hope to that life during an unceasing pandemic (Morning), among other daily mundanity. Dave Ramm is the drummer and Matt Nyce plays bass.
Indeed, Wimps’ City Lights may well stand as an artifact of humanity in a time of increasingly glossed and flawed expression. An imperfect, live, energetic, human statement made by 3 imperfect, mostly alive, yet rapidly deteriorating early 40s bit players of various Seattle whos and whats of a time long ago and soon to be forgotten. City Lights is a collection of solid classic wimps bops from stop to finish.
Record Release Shows
October 13th - Seattle WA @ The Clockout (w/ Hell Baby, Debt Rag, Rat Queen)
November 4th - Portland, OR @ The Fixin To (w/ Mini Blinds, Scorch)
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