Included in:
-Newsweek's Best Albums of 2018
-NY Times’ Best Songs of 2018 (#20 “Symmetry”)
-The Skinny's Top Albums of 2018 (#15)
-Aquarium Drunkard's 2018 Year in Review
-Paste’s Best Songs of 2018 (#33 “The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs”)
 

CD: Packaged in a four-panel wallet and includes an 8-page booklet with lyrics.

LP: Black vinyl housed in a gatefold jacket. Includes a 12 × 12 in. insert with lyrics and download card.

Signed LP: Front cover autographed by both Jenn Wasner & Andy Stack! Black vinyl housed in a gatefold jacket & protected by a clear plastic polybag. Includes a 12 × 12 in. insert with lyrics and download card.

Peak Vinyl: Limited-edition pressing on “sand and sky” (opaque beige and transparent blue) vinyl. Includes lyric insert and download card.

The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs can be also be found at your local independent record store.

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For The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs, Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack flew to one another’s cities—she in Durham, North Carolina, he in Marfa, Texas—for a week or so at a time, hunkering in home studios to sort through and combine their separate song sketches. These shorter stints together produced less second-guessing and hesitation in their process, yielding an unabashed and unapologetic Wye Oak. They discarded past rules about how to write a record, instead funneling all those experiences and experiments into perfectly unified statements.

The result is the biggest, broadest, boldest music Wye Oak has ever made. Louder pursues a litany of modern malaises, each of its dozen tracks diligently addressing a new conflict and pinning it against walls of sound, with the song’s subject and shape inextricably and ingeniously linked. It arrives at a time of immense doubt, when our personal problems are infinitely compounded by a world that seems in existential peril. But these songs answer the challenge by radiating self-reflection and resolve, wielding hooks and musical intricacy as a shield against the madness of the moment.