WYE OAK - Shriek LP electronic cold wave and krautrock across

cold wave and krautrock across the ten tracks Duchess Says know how to write songs that are confronting and abrasive while maintaining pop sensibilities

Their success underlines the lack of cohesion to the Akron and Cleveland scenes

later to flourish in the heavily influential minimalist punk outfit Ohana) to the nth degree

While Teenage Hate had been nasty

WYE OAK - Shriek LP electronic cold wave and krautrock acrossIt might sound like a new band, but the songs are unmistakably Wye Oak. Shriek feels like a natural progression, with synths handling the same rhythms and higher register melodies once reserved for the guitars.