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“that’s the sound of someone singing in an empty room”

Friday, January 1st, 2010

BEST OF THE DECADE
We were quite happy to discover that Wussy was included in Robert Christgau’s Best of the Decade list! Funeral Dress ranked #4 and Left for Dead came in at #14.

WRECKLESS ERIC’S NEW YEAR’S RADIO BROADCAST
Download or stream here. In which Eric describes the night Lisa opened for he and wife Amy Rigby this past summer “somewhere far flung.. CINCINNATI!.. we met them in a whorehouse in Cincinnati actually..” Writer Steve Rosen was also there and gives his take on the evening here. Either way, we think you should really be listening to the Wreckless Eric Radio Show on a regular basis.

CITYBEAT BEST OF 2009
 We got some love from Cincinnati’s weekly in several mentions over the past couple of weeks:

Heroes of the Zeroes, Fifty reasons why real music fans were lucky to live in Cincinnati in the ’00s: “Ass Ponys fans saddened by that band’s unceremonious disappearance found a more-than-apt substitute with Wussy, Chuck Cleaver’s subsequent group that featured co-singing/writing/fronting partner Lisa Walker. The band’s three albums in the ’00s received national acclaim from big-time media outlets and were among the best releases of the decade, local or otherwise.” (Mike Breen) read the rest
Best National Releases of 09: “The local quartet’s most compelling and cohesive statement to date digs deep via Chuck Cleaver’s and Lisa Walker’s tension-riddled tales of relationships in various states of disrepair. Just as impressive has been the evolution of Wussy’s use of dynamics — the most important of which remains the unique dichotomy, both aesthetically and musically, of its lead couple.” (Jason Gargano) read the rest
Best Local Releases of 09: “Wussy’s third album was a culmination of everything the band does well: eccentric but grippingly clever wordplay, crafty vocal interplay and dirty, buzzing Pop songs that bubble with soulful energy and heart-baring/ blasting emotions.” (Mike Breen) read the rest

Critics and Radio Polls
Greg Dulli’s Top Ten on Brooklyn Vegan
Blurt Magazine: Jason Gross and Steve Rosen
WFPK (Louisville): Stacey Owen
KEXP (Seattle/NYC): Don Slack
Damanbly (UK): George Gargan

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happiness bleeds: npr song of the day

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

midpoint2NPR Song of the Day 10/01/09
Wussy: Portraits Of Unlikely ‘Happiness’
by Christian Hoard

October 1, 2009 – The Cincinnati band Wussy’s self-titled third album is a song cycle about a fictional couple, written by a real one: Lisa Walker and Chuck Cleaver, who don’t likely suffer the same troubles as their counterparts. On Wussy, the two take snapshots of infidelity, seething anger and other problems, replete with everyday details and rough-hewn melodies that are catchier than they initially appear. It’s one of the best indie-rock albums of the year.

link to article

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fresh air’s ken tucker on wussy

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

17309_logoFrom NPR’s Fresh Air Program: “It’s alright, we’ve got all night,” Cleaver and Walker sing in “Little Paper Birds,” the lead-off cut on their new album. And indeed, in their measured ways, Wussy’s songs do exude a serene confidence in the strength of the music. It conveys the delicacy and fragility of the emotions they want to describe.

It also helps that “Little Paper Birds” includes a line that the band must have known would charm anyone who still uses the postal system: “I finally got your letter and your punctuation hit me like a truck.”

Transcript / Podcast

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kexp song of the day: muscle cars

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

wussy2From KEXP: Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part our Song of the Day podcast subscription. This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJs think you should hear. Today’s featured selection from Morning Show host John Richards is “Muscle Cars” by Wussy from the band’s self-titled 2009 album on Shake It Records.

Wussy – Muscle Cars (MP3)

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new woxy lounge act

Friday, June 5th, 2009

woxy1From WOXY.com: This was the third Lounge Act session for Cincy rockers Wussy, although their first here playing with new drummer Joe Klug (formerly of Staggering Statistics). 

For their third (and self-titled) album, they worked again with John Curley. This time around, Chuck & Lisa seem to split their singing duties pretty evenly.

We caught the band before heading out on a brief East Coast tour. Check out this performance and then be sure to see them when they hit cities like Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., and NYC in the weeks ahead.

Click here to get MP3 of this session
Photo Gallery
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wussy makes magnet a mix tape

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

magnetmixFrom Magnet: Since 2001, singers/guitarists Chuck Cleaver and Lisa Walker have have created an X factor (that’d be their John Doe/Exene Cervenka-like vocal interplay) for Wussy, the Cincinnati quartet that brings bar-band grit to droning, almost jangly guitar rock. As the group prepares for a summer tour in support of its third album (self-titled and recently issued on Shake It Records), Cleaver and Walker took the time to make MAGNET a mix tape with a broken-record theme: songs they find themselves singing obsessively and compulsively.

Click here to download Muscle Cars and stream Mix Tape.

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