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A nice cliché that music writers like to toss around for a band's sound or album is "intoxicating." Well, one of Portland's longest running and best rock bands is ready to take that idea one tipsy step forward.
Wow & Flutter are proud to present to the world Double Deuce, an mp3 EP that can only be obtained when you purchase a bottle of Alameda Brewing's Double Deuce Imperial Ale.
Co-released by Alameda Brewing and Jealous Butcher Records, the 7.5% Imperial Ale, is the perfect accompaniment to five new songs from Wow & Flutter that expands the trio's warped take on noise rock and psych punk. Too, the five songs here help to further expose the darker side of the band's sound that they exhibited on the group's incredible 2010 release Equilibrio! (Mt. Fuji Records).
Wow & Flutter will be releasing the beer and the music to the public on January 28th at Kelly’s Olympian in downtown Portland. In February the beer/ep will be available in grocery stores (Fred Meyer, Whole Foods, New Season, etc.) throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Although the band Wow & Flutter have been around since the late '90s, the current and possibly greatest lineup of the band—singer/guitarist Cord Amato, drummer Jack Houston, and bassist/keyboardist/vocalist Ryan Matheson—has been in place since 2006. This lean three-piece has spent these past five years tearing at the eardrums of music fans in the NW via their taut, vicious live shows and equally snarling albums (Equilbrio! and the 2008 Jealous Butcher release Golden Touch).
Double Deuce EP (Imperial Ale + MP3)
Track Listing:
1) Big Guns (3:07)
2) Tired of Waiting (5:23)
3) Little Red Scooter (3:09)
4) Nothing Lasts Forever (5:04)
5) Black River (7:05)
Press Quotes:
"It's an absorbing, wide-ranging record that swings stylistically from arty post-punk to classic American rock anthems and back to spaghetti-Western dirges with an impressive amount of graceful cohesiveness. It's adventurous and smart, and has sleeper hit written all over it." Hannah Levin, Seattle Weekly
"They are locked in and not letting up." Robert Ham, MusicFestNW
"Blustery and charged..." Mark Stock, Local Cut
"A dark tint colors the entire disc, but it's never brooding." Matt Singer, Willamette Week
"You don't know whether to run away or stand still..." Ryan Prado, Portland Mercury
"Exhilarating; a sonic roller-coaster ride." Barbara Mitchell, Portland Tribune
"They're more raucous than before, but with the same pleasing, energetic sound." Rachel Shimp, Seattle Weekly
