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| Popmatters |
 Peter Wolf Crier—the Midwestern duo made up of Peter Pisano and Brian Moen—are really on to something with the title of their first record. That made up phrase, Inter-Be, goes a long way in describing what’s going on in this record. It covers not only the sonic landscape here, which echoes both back into the past and forward into tomorrow, but also the emotion of the record and, perhaps most interestingly, where their sound falls in today’s musical world.The duo’s sound could—repeat, could, were it made of lesser parts—get lumped in with a bunch of indie heavyweights, relegated to being the guys that sound like someone we already know. To hear the way Pisano can hit a reverbed falsetto, and the ghostly space in his guitar work, certainly calls to mind fellow Midwestern outfit Bon Iver, and the gravelly curl he puts in his voice on “Down, Down, Down” bears more than a passing resemblance to M. Ward. Couple those sorts of moments with their folk-driven sound, and there’s a real chance these guys could get lost in the shuffle. Those comparisons are ours to set aside, not theirs to disprove, because Pisano and Moen have a sound that is, yes, very much a sound of today. But it also taps into sounds that have been around for ages, and the way they combine them on Inter-Be, the way they exist between the past and the present, is what makes these songs so arresting....full text |
| Culturebully |
| Peter Pisano has always had an ear for melodies. He made that much clear when his band the Wars of 1812 made permanent settlement on our Minnesota shores and quickly became a critically lauded fixture in the scene. The band had its shortcomings, but a lack of catchy hooks certainly wasn’t one of them. Now, after a self confessed creative drought, Pisano has channeled a violent outburst of songwriting into a new project, this time with a different Eau Claire expat, Brian Moen of Laarks. The project is called Peter Wolf Crier, and the duo has just released their debut album Inter-Be. The record is loaded with Pisano-penned lyrics, with Moen helping out on instrumentation and (ostensibly) the occasional backup vocals. To anyone familiar with the Wars’ material, you may notice a few similarities. Like Wars, PWC definitely takes a few cues from the country and blues styles. Pisano’s high baritone is also impossible to mistake, perhaps making the two projects sound more alike than they really are. But in reality PWC is very much a different animal. It’s a less clean for starters. Where Wars are clear-eyed charmers, PWC takes a grittier bent, fuzzing out the lyrics with distortion and clouding the music with reverb. Perhaps the most marked change though is that Pisano sounds like he’s been in some real agony. Songs like “Hard as Nails” build in emotional fervor to a fevered pace before ending in a catharsis of high pitched wails. Others sound just plain down and out bluesy, like “Down Down Down” a bleak visceral descent that places Pisa’s sorrowful lyrics over relatively simple guitar chords and drums....full text |
| Puddlegum |
| There are times as a music blogger when I wish I could flip a switch and bring everyone’s attention to a band that I think the music blogging world should be aware of. Peter Wolf Crier sparks this emotion in me. You may remember reading about a Minneapolis band called The Wars of 1812 that I wrote about two years ago. Since our initial post about The Wars of 1812, the band recorded an album with Justin and Nate Vernon of Bon Iver, breaking up not long after. Peter Pisano of The Wars of 1812 began writing and recording an album with Brian Moen of The Shouting Matches (a band that Justin Vernon is in). The result of Peter’s work with Brian is a band called Peter Wolf Crier. Peter Wolf Crier’s debut album, Inter-Be, is an album I immediately felt connected to. Vocals seem to be fed through guitar amps to give it an edge to these folksy songs. The guitars have a slight fuzzy sound as they lay a backdrop with dark images. It has a raw feel, yet not at the expense of quality. Working with Jeremey Catterton, a theater director, Peter Wolf Crier performed the album for three weeks in a rented house in St. Paul. Together they put together a “movement based abstract work,” moving the performance to different rooms of the house every night. (3-Minute Egg)...full text |
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