June 6, 2007
Live Music
Wheat
Sun., June 10, 8pm. $10. With Yarrows + Bee Team. North Star, 27th and Poplar sts. 215.787.0488. www.northstarrocks.com
As the shoegazer craze of the late ’90s petered out, Wheat resuscitated the movement for one last hurrah with the sparse lovelorn beauty of Medeiros.
Their follow-up effort on Chicago’s Sugar Free Records, the Dave Fridmann-produced Hope and Adams, defiantly deflected any sign of the dreaded sophomore slump and rocketed Wheat to the upper echelons of the upstart label.
Poised to grasp the elusive brass ring of relative rock stardom among indie hopefuls, Wheat inexplicably floundered, shopping their third LP around the label circuit for the better part of the next three years.
Today Wheat are a newly risen phoenix, as evidenced by the dark yet poppy Everyday I Said a Prayer for Kathy and Made a One-Inch Square.
Behold Lazarus, walking among the living indies once again. (Joshua Valocchi)
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