Description
You could say that a lot has happened since the release of Los Angeles based Wax Idols critically well-received 2013 album, Discipline + Desire, and if you re steeped in the shorthand of music criticism go-to narratives, it would be dangerously easy to get reductive about what happened next: The bands singer-songwriter, Hether Fortune, supported the album as best she could, spent some time in 2014 as a touring player in White Lung, went through a heartbreaking divorce, and then sat down to make American Tragic the long-awaited third album and first for Collect Records.
Indeed, this is not only a deeply personal record, but a chiefly independent one: As a songwriter and true multi-instrumentalist, Fortune wrote and recorded everything but the drums on American Tragic a feat only bolstered by the albums compelling performances and meticulous execution, but a little known fact nonetheless.
Third album from Los Angeles Wax Idols, co-produced by Hether Fortune and Monte Vallier (Weekend, Mark Eitzel, The Soft Moon, Vaniish)
The bands first two releases came via Slumberland
Album launched with Lonely You as the lead track
Chief singer-songwriter Hether Fortune is well-known from her time as bassist in White Lung
Music video for Lonely You to premiere in September
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