People Like Us presents: The Wants

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New York's The Wants play the Golden Lion on Wednesday 24 September.

The band describe themselves as “No Wave / No pop techno punk”.

They have just released their second album 'Bastard' in June. It explores disconnection in an age of endless connection. This duality manifests in the music itself organic instruments wrestle with electronic ghosts, while traditional song structures are dismantled and reassembled into strange new forms. Deeply influenced by personal tragedy, Velding-VanDam began writing after his father was found dead in his Michigan trailer, having been deceased for 8 days. The aftermath of this discovery, hoarded belongings, towers of empty liquor bottles and oxycodone containers, grime-covered childhood photos, became the emotional backdrop for the album’s creation.

The Wants website:

https://thewants.xyz