ABOUT DAVID WAX MUSEUM: [https://www.davidwaxmuseum.com/]
It’s been nearly a dozen years since David Wax and Suz Slezak played
their first show together, kicking off a partnership that’s led to
seven records, multiple Top 20 chart placements, performances
alongside contemporaries like The Avett Brothers and heroes like Los
Lobos, and — most importantly — a family of four. As that family
has grown, so has the band’s sound. Filled with husband-and-wife
vocal harmonies, Mexican stringed instruments, melodic hooks, and
blasts of brass, David Wax Museum’s albums fly the worldly flag for
a brand of Americana that reaches far beyond American borders.
Early in 2018, after honing a new batch of songs on the road, they
found themselves making music in the Nashville-based home studio of
Carl Broemel (My Morning Jacket’s, Ray LaMontagne) who produced
David Wax Museum’s most compelling work to date, Line of Light.
Released in 2019 by the Austin-based indie label Nine Mile Records,
the album refocuses on the band’s two co-founders. Weaving the
personal with the political, the global with the spiritual, Line of
Light chronicles the landscapes and longings that connect us all.
Inspired by current events and personal challenges, Line of Light
offers its own mix of message and melody. This is honest, heartfelt
music about sweeping ideas, anchored in sharp songwriting and
uncluttered by heavy-handed studio production. For those who caught
one of David Wax Museum’s earliest shows — long before the group
stole the show at the Newport Folk Festival, toured alongside Buena
Vista Social Club, and earned an audience that’s as international as
the band’s own sound — the album feels like a homecoming of sorts,
sweetened with contributions from David Wax Museum’s full lineup but
still grounded in the raw power of the band’s two-member core.
It’s a bright album for murky times, a reminder of music’s ability
to drive out the darkness, one song at a time.
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