{"id":17182,"date":"2015-10-24T09:30:25","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T13:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=17182"},"modified":"2015-10-21T21:36:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T01:36:40","slug":"tim-presley-shares-new-track-from-his-w-x-side-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=17182","title":{"rendered":"Tim Presley shares new track from his W-X side project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Presley is a busy dude. On top of his main project, White Fence, and DRINKS, his duo project with Cate Le Bon, he is also releasing another full-length in 2015 under the name W-X, which is a solo outlet \/ side project for his more experimental tendencies. The self-titled debut W-X LP is due via John Dwyer&#8217;s Castle Face Records on Nov. 6 &#8211; you can pre-order via <a href=\"https:\/\/midheaven.com\/item\/st-by-wx#.Vig5U8s8srV\" target=\"_blank\">Midheaven<\/a>. Listen to\u00a0<em>Brazilian Worm Band<\/em> lifted from\u00a0<em>&#8216;W-X&#8217;<\/em> via Soundcloud<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F217843583&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&color=c1c1c1\"><\/iframe>\n<p>Dwyer has introduced W-X to the world via the poem below:<\/p>\n<p>I look across the table at the man<br \/>\ncuban coffee in hand, cigarette stuck to lip<br \/>\nglasses nearly opaque grey blue<br \/>\nyou can see his sleepy eyes but only just barely<br \/>\nand I think &#8220;this man has been up all night in the song-lab writing while the masses sleep&#8221;<br \/>\nLike Poe, eyes screwed up from working by candle light<br \/>\nNicely high but not for pleasure&#8230;for the boundless job<br \/>\nNot that these songs are to be listened to strictly at night while lit up, but it seems they lean that way<br \/>\nBlown and bent like trees on a white noise swept plain<br \/>\nSurreal like a wet city street after hours<br \/>\nWinding like a nocturnal drive through the backstreets<br \/>\nEnd upon beginning like a borderless landmass<br \/>\nEach song or structure tail bleeding onto the fingertips of the next<br \/>\nBarely holding onto the fur of cohesion<br \/>\nI think of this record as kind of a &#8220;Tim Presley reads his book on tape&#8221;<br \/>\nThe story of life in Los Angeles flowing like the low moisture river that it is<br \/>\nThe start is uphill, long and slow, and you ponder when you will be spat out onto the straight away<br \/>\nBy the time &#8220;Clean It Glen&#8221; kicks in, your hands are sweating<br \/>\nand then you are there and it is glassy and wonderfully repetitive, repetitive, repetitive<br \/>\nLights are flashing<br \/>\nCars are passing<br \/>\nThere is synthesized wild life here<br \/>\nBlips that are winged<br \/>\nCrackles that are slithering through the digital grass<br \/>\nEcho ripples across a chrome topped body of water<br \/>\nYou catch a glimpse of yourself in a store-that-sells-something window<br \/>\nBeats are the staccato lines on the road being eaten by the undercarriage of the vehicle that whips Through this world<br \/>\nGuitars are trash and debris<br \/>\nAcid<br \/>\nA headphone record at its primal best<br \/>\nFar out and geographically odd<br \/>\nEvery time i play this someone asks, &#8220;what the hell is this?&#8221;<br \/>\nI say W-X<br \/>\nDig in<br \/>\nBest to listen to it in its entirety<br \/>\nA vast 20 course experience served on twin platters<br \/>\nA carnival<br \/>\nA far cry from White Fence and yet still the scent lingers on the fingers<br \/>\nHe told me I would hate this repeatedly and I replied that it is my favorite masterpiece of his (of which there are many)<br \/>\nThis record looks through to the matrix of Tim&#8217;s songsmith genius, don&#8217;t forget to blink<br \/>\nFor fans of early Soft Machine, The Fall, The Tronics , general clutter, disarray and Faust<\/p>\n<p>Poem by John Dwyer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/W-X-self-titled-album-cover.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-17184\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/W-X-self-titled-album-cover.jpg?resize=386%2C386\" alt=\"W-X self-titled album cover\" width=\"386\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/W-X-self-titled-album-cover.jpg?w=560&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/W-X-self-titled-album-cover.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/W-X-self-titled-album-cover.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/W-X-self-titled-album-cover.jpg?resize=144%2C144&amp;ssl=1 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/><\/a><strong>Track list:<\/strong><br \/>\n01 Intro<br \/>\n02 The Lurk<br \/>\n03 Steer Clear<br \/>\n04 Running From The Dogs<br \/>\n05 Copping In The Afternoon<br \/>\n06 If Someone Hears That<br \/>\n07 Restless Leg<br \/>\n08 Extortion<br \/>\n09 Dancing Lips<br \/>\n10 Brazilian Worm Band<br \/>\n11 Moment<br \/>\n12 Two Peaceful Death Birds<br \/>\n13 Clean It Glen<br \/>\n14 Desert Temple Players<br \/>\n15 Trap Deal Part 1<br \/>\n16 Trap Part 2<br \/>\n17 Trap Part 3<br \/>\n18 Sacri-Face<br \/>\n19 The Saddest Lyrics I Have Ever Written<br \/>\n20 Hermit Stomp (Simple Times)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Tim Presley is a busy dude. On top of his main project, White Fence, and DRINKS, his duo project with Cate Le Bon, he is <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=17182\" title=\"Tim Presley shares new track from his W-X side project\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[23,28,30],"tags":[3565,3256,3566,1848,3564,1845],"class_list":["post-17182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indie","category-music","category-new-release","tag-castle-face","tag-drinks","tag-john-dwyer","tag-tim-presley","tag-w-x","tag-white-fence"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/W-X.jpg?fit=786%2C676&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-4t8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6186,"url":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=6186","url_meta":{"origin":17182,"position":0},"title":"White Fence announce new LP + share &#8216;Pink Gorilla&#8217;","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"February 18, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"White Fence announce details of their upcoming new LP titled 'Cyclops Reap,' which is out on\u00a0April 9, 2013 via\u00a0Castleface. 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