RELEASE
Artist: Wandl
Title: It’s All Good Tho
Label: Affine Records
Catalog: AFF 017
Release Date: June 2nd, 2017
Format: 12“ / Download (LP)
File Under: Electronic, R&B, Soul
TRACKLIST
01 – Nothing
02 – Window Color
03 – Honey Soldja
04 – Schulhof
05 – Cola
06 – Blowin Smoke
07 – Sweet Love
08 – Toast
09 – Gay
10 – Fever
11 – 0800-333-Talk
12 – Hell ft. Cid Rim
13 – It´s All Good Tho
14 – Drones
15 – Slept For Days
16 – Beatles (How I Want U)
17 – Häuser
ARTWORK / COVER
Download: https://goo.gl/yqZPXh
PRESS PICS
Download: https://goo.gl/y2sN13
BIOGRAPHY
Affine Records Artist Profile
DISTRIBUTION
kudosrecords.co.uk
BOOKING/MGMT/PRESS
Jamal / Affine Records
office@affinerecords.com
DOWNLOAD LP
On request via office@affinerecords.com
(MP3 or WAV package for reviews, features, DJs, airplay)
INTERVIEWS
Wandl will be pleased to answer your questions – according to prior agreement in Vienna, via telephone, Skype or mail.
PRESS: PREVIOUS COVERAGE
Intro (DE): https://goo.gl/D91f4C
Complex (UK): https://goo.gl/bt02Xl
Juice (DE): https://goo.gl/oWUGgE
Noisey (AT): https://goo.gl/0i0czn
UPCOMING AND PAST DATES
Jul 22 – Parque del Sol – AT
Jul 17 – Impulstanz Festival – AT
Jul 08 – Splash Festival – GER
Jun 30 – Europavox Festival – FR
Apr 08 – Fluc Wanne (DJ-Set) – AT
Feb 04 – Flex Cafe – AT
Jan 13 – Eurosonic Noorderslag – NL
Oct 15 – Gretchen – GER
Oct 14 – Häkken – GER
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22-year-old Vienna-resident Wandl developed into one of the most progressive and interesting european producers in recent years. His longplay-debut „It’s All Good Tho“ brings his take on melodic vocals and experimental, bass driven instrumentals to the fore. His EPs “Milk”, “Soon” and his Affine-debut „Far Way Home“ stretch out his personal vision of brainfeeder-nerdism and state of the art bedroom-soul. On “It’s All Good Tho” he plays almost all the instruments, channels his vocals through machines, alienates and exposes them – and he’s not shy of monumental hooks.
After recording „Geld Leben“ with Crack Ignaz – an album that Juice Magazine, All Good and Intro called one of the best Deutschrap-records of the decade – Wandl isolated himself and retreated to his den. Being alone in his Wandl-crib or at the studio of his labelmate, mentor, and guest on the album, Dorian Concept, he wrote songs on guitar, rhodes, violin and synth and sang cranky-beautiful sketches into his phone, that turn into post-R’n’B-gems. During the production the St.-Pölten-born multi instrumentalist temporarily moved to Hamburg to write the orchestration for the play “Der gestohlene Gott”. By day he worked on the theater staging, at night he recorded vocals at the grand piano in the massive and inspiring lobby. Throughout the three performances during which he partly improvised some of the sound design, Wandl further developed his intuition.
You can hear some of that dramatic composition on “It’s All Good Tho”. “Fever” is an intimate Laptop-slow-jam, revealing a lot of Wandl’s inner life and expresses rage, self-doubt and transcience. On the enchanting bipolar-blues “Window Color” he also touches upon death, but favors life in the end. Then on “Gay” it gets really brutal, as he sings: “I cut myself up, ‘til I need some help, I bleed myself out, then I clean the floor“ – before heading off to the bright sun. “Hell” with Cid Rim is as close a near-death experience can be experienced sonically. A vivid descent into hell.
Despite these (subbass-)depths and its Lo-Fi-appeal, “It’s All Good Tho” is a single peak. Hopeful and pacifying. Connecting the dots between Affine-aesthetic and Hanuschplatzflow- humor, songwriter-skills and Stones-Throw-socialisation. With the trippy „0800-333-Talk“ and the space battle „Drones“ Wandl keeps up with futuristic beat-gods like FlyLo and HudMo. “Cola”, the first single, is a straight summer-tune that fit seamlessly into mainstream-radio and shows that the timid musician must surely be Austria’s next top export. And when the hypnotic loop of “Häuser“ fades out, all the worries are blown away. Wandl makes sure: „It’s All Good Tho“