MAGNET named this album one of the 60 best records of the last 10 years. A band with a back story that reads like a Chuck Palahniuk novel (male absurdity, futile ambition, adolescent maturity, acid wit, and a Pixies cover). This album makes me want to send the rich dudes in The Strokes/Rooney/Weezer/Phantom Planet to New Jersey for seven years and make them eat dirt and work McJobs until they come up with something half as wounded and inventive as "The Meadowlands." A masterwork.

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The Wrens were a woefully under-recorded doo wop group from the Morrisania section of the Bronx led by singer Bobby Mansfield, and this disc represents their complete recorded legacy. Counting unreleased material and alternate takes, the group recorded 14 tracks for George Goldner's Rama and Gee labels between 1954 and 1956, after which the group simply evaporated. The Wrens had a somewhat harder R&B edge than many of their genre contemporaries, and why they didn't generate more suc...   [ read more ]

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Insound LP+MP3! Purchase the vinyl format of The Meadowlands and you'll receive a link to download the MP3s for free immediately after check-out! VINYL FORMAT. MAGNET named this album one of the 60 best records of the last 10 years. A band with a back story that reads like a Chuck Palahniuk novel (male absurdity, futile ambition, adolescent maturity, acid wit, and a Pixies cover). This album makes me want to send the rich dudes in The Strokes/Rooney/Weezer/Phantom Planet to New Jersey for seven years an...   [ read more ]

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