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Wandering Years Retirement Community

by Wandering Years

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Relations 08:36
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Kismet 06:02
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Recuerdos 03:03
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about

Wandering Years Retirement Community (WYRC) is the third release from Brooklyn musician Gene Stroman (Wandering Years). The EP is a companion to 2021’s debut On Not Coming Home. Both were written and recorded in Winter 2020-21 with help from Brooklyn multi-instrumentalist Matt Schlatter (Physical Kids, io & Titan). Stylistically and lyrically, the two releases are cut of the same cloth.

The Wandering Years sound has been described as a unique blend of bedroom pop and indie folk with elements of slowcore and alt-country. Inspired by pioneers of the indie-folk and slowcore canons (Elliott Smith, Mark Kozelek, Jason Molina), WYRC features a distinctive pairing of nylon string guitar and pedal steel-esque swells, providing a beautiful backdrop for Stroman’s plaintive lyrics and melodies.

WYRC is an album that scrutinizes the dualities of adulthood - the joys and struggles of finding oneself; the bittersweet nature of settling down.
These seven songs find Stroman musing on his own identity as it relates to his new home in NYC, his marriage, career, and changing family dynamics — all against the backdrop of a global pandemic. Wandering Years Retirement Community features some of Stroman’s strongest, most mature songwriting to date, and is sure to be an ideal gateway to the wellspring of creativity in the artist’s back pocket.

Cassettes available from Candlepin Records:
candlepinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/wandering-years-retirement-community

credits

released November 4, 2022

All songs by Gene Stroman unless otherwise noted:

Mixed by Matt Schlatter
Mastered by Christopher Weingarten

Artwork by Gene Stroman

Kenny Hamilton: Bass - Track 2
Matt Schlatter: Drums - Track 3; Bass - Tracks 1,3,4,5
Gloria Liebrand: Voice - Track 6

"Relations" originally by Jackson C. Frank (1965)

This album is dedicated to my family, including those featured in these photographs.

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Wandering Years Brooklyn, New York

Wandering Years is the recording project of Gene Stroman and friends

NYC slowcore by way of VA

wandering years forever

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