Photos of Wye Oak at The Earl in Atlanta, GA on November 14th, 2018
Photos of Wye Oak at SXSW 2016 in Austin, TX
Photos of Wye Oak at The Parish in Austin, TX on July 6th, 2014
Photos of Wye Oak at Webster Hall in New York, NY on May 7th, 2014
Photos of Wye Oak at Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, NY on September 20th, 2012
QRO’s review of Wye Oak at Air Canada Centre in Toronto, ON, Canada on December 8th, 2011
QRO’s review of Wye Oak at Uptown Theatre in Kansas City, KS on October 12th, 2011
Photos of Wye Oak at SXSW 2011
Photos of Wye Oak at Koko in London, U.K. on February 23rd, 2011
Photos of Wye Oak at 2010 Siren Music Festival on Coney Island in Brooklyn, NY
Before, during, and after the COVID pandemic, Baltimore’s Wye Oak released a series of non-album singles. Unlike their last studio record, 2018’s The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs (QRO review), these dipped back into their alt-folk earlier days, over the synths of Louder. Now those singles, and some other unreleased material, has been compiled for Every Day Like the Last: Collected Singles 2019-2023.
‘A collection of singles’ releases can often feel like a jumbled grab-bag, no connection between the songs, but Every comes off as an actual album. There is a sad wistfulness throughout the full-length, from the alt-country titular opener to the more affected closer “Repeat (If You Remind Me)”. The songs also distinctly go for the higher range, to bring the indie-sad emotion of the beautiful “Its Way With Me” and subsequent reaching “Fortune”.
While we saw a boom in ‘collection of songs’ releases during and right after the COVID lockdown, thankfully Every Day Like the Last: Collected Singles 2019-2023 does not come off as that, but rather another lovely collection of songs from a lovely band.
