Los Angeles-based outfit WYO has quickly established a cinematic sound inspired and informed by the breathtaking beauty of frontman Andy Sorge’s home state of Wyoming and guitarist’s Scott McKay Gibson’s favorite refuge. According to the band, “within the melodies and lyrics are reminders of the beauty and magic all around us, and nature’s unwavering ability to bring us back to ourselves.”
Thematically, the Los Angeles-based outfit’s work takes an honest look at love and loss, and the soul-searching and clarity that frequently emerges in the spaces between.
The band has received praise from the likes of Music Connection, Performer Magazine, Buzzbands.la, Ear to the Ground, Huffington Post, Earmilk, Pop Dust and a host of others. Building upon a growing profile, the band has made the rounds of the festival circuit playing sets at SXSW, Eat See Hear Festival, Kaaboo Festival, and have played School Night LA and Jam in the Van.
WYO’s latest single “Rectified” is a swaggering hook-driven tune anchored around a slinky, R&B-inspired arrangement featuring reverb-soaked boom bap-like drumming, a strutting bass line, bursts of twinkling keys and atmospheric electronics that’s roomy enough for a jazz-meets-house music piano solo and a buzzing post punk-like guitar solo. The song’s genre and style-defying arrangement serves as a lush and satiny bed for Sorge’s plaintive delivery.
“‘Rectified’ is a bold anthem of resolve that embraces the only solution when things aren’t going right — to course correct and rectify,” the band explains.
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