RainDogToo Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 M. Ward Announces New Solo Album After spending the past few years collaborating with Zooey Deschanel in She & Him and Conor Oberst, Jim James, and Mike Mogis in Monsters of Folk, M. Ward is back to his solo career. New album A Wasteland Companion, the follow-up to 2009's Hold Time, will be released on Merge on April 10.Guests on the album include Deschanel, Mogis, Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth, Howe Gelb of Giant Sand, PJ Harvey collaborator John Parish, and more.As reported, Ward will tour this spring with the reunited fIREHOSE and Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo opening. tracklist:A Wasteland Companion: 01 Clean Slate (For Alex & El Goodo)02 Primitive Girl03 Me and My Shadow04 Sweetheart05 I Get Ideas06 The First Time I Ran Away07 A Wasteland Companion08 Watch the Show09 There's a Key10 Crawl After You11 Wild Goose12 Pure Joy Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wendy Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 Howe Gelb!?! Niiiiiiiice. Looking forward to this. I haven't been let down by M.Ward so far, not that I spend a great deal of time listening to him at this point, but I always like it when he comes up on the mix.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stooka Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 As if I needed one more reason to love that spring is coming. This tops the list!! M Ward always delivers, so I'm not worried whether or not it will be exciting, touching or brilliant, Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Smokestack Joe Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 awesome news! glad he got back to his own music. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wild Frank Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Love M.Ward and good to see him back focused on his own records. I liked 'Hold Time' but never really fell in love with it as much as I thought I would. 'Transistor Radio' is a beautiful record though. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RainDogToo Posted January 24, 2012 Author Share Posted January 24, 2012 Love M.Ward and good to see him back focused on his own records. I liked 'Hold Time' but never really fell in love with it as much as I thought I would. 'Transistor Radio' is a beautiful record though. I Love Post-War. I have all his albums but that one is by far my favorite. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
welch79 Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 This is good news. I enjoy M. Ward. His shows are good as well. He has a weird tic about not getting photographed. I personally love The Transfiguration of Vincent. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
solace Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 my faves are prolly a tie between Post War & Vincent, then Amnesia & Duets, Transistor & Hold Time (which i still quite love mind you) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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Wild Frank Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 http://youtu.be/T5T8WNpcTDcCracking video. The song may need a few more listens. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stooka Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 Currently streaming new record on NPR... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Smokestack Joe Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 and it sounds great!!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tweedling Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 Well how is everyone taking the new record? I can't say that anything is real departure from previous albums....but then again that is fine with me. Not sure I needed another duet with ZD. Unless they want to make a video with her running around in her underwear! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wild Frank Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 Well how is everyone taking the new record? I can't say that anything is real departure from previous albums....but then again that is fine with me. Not sure I needed another duet with ZD. Unless they want to make a video with her running around in her underwear!If I'm being honest I'm not keen on this one at all. Production very similar to the previous two but just doesn't have the songs. Might grow on me. I think the ZD collaborations have had a negative impact on this record. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
-seven Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 The Conan performance of Primitive Girl was really good. http://stereogum.com/998172/watch-m-ward-on-conan/video/ I've been diggin The First Time I Ran Away a lot also. I haven't caught the part where Howe is on the record. I'll have to pay more attention for that. I love him too. I'm not a fan of his collaboration with Zooey but he seems super happy on this record. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Smokestack Joe Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 only had a few listens to it so far and i like it and yes not much a departure from records past but thats ok with it. Gonna miss him perform in Madison, so disappointed about that. liked the band on Conan, i was happy to see Chris Scruggs playing guitar with him, wondered where he has been. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stooka Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 Like the new record! Love the title track and how it takes a turn off into an instrumental. Has anyone else ever had a cymbal solo on their record? Let alone, two? HahahaTime to find a new muse though.... ZD has run her course.Only complaint would be that the record has no consistency. Whereas all his other releases flow quite well. This one can't seem to find it's identity. It's up, it's down. I find myself skipping Primitive Girl and the ZD tracks for the lush, slower songs. I swear the man has seven fingers on each hand.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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