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Red Wire Black Wire is a Brooklyn based 5-piece that creates music with the immediacy of a DJ and the subtlety of film score. Formed at Wesleyan University, their music combines dense but precise layers of synths, guitars, strings, and pounding drums. Eschewing irony, singer Doug Walters focuses on the melancholy; critics have compared him to Robert Daniel Smith and Frank Miller.

Red Wire Black Wire effortlessly fuse electronic and organic counterpoint to create catchy, textured, and revealing compositions.One critic said the band simultaneously broke his heart and made him want to dance. Another simply commented that the music was “ai’ght.”
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  • an-gy

    Great band indeed!

    4 Jul 2011 Reply

  • rtelles1

    So! This band is great, very very listenable. I love Locked out and Compass. Awesome beat. Funny lyrics. Also love the singer's voice. [But "wesleyan" tag is kinda silly and irrelevant, no?] :o)

    12 Jun 2010 Reply

  • ImpelDown

    I am offended by the fact that you refuse to listen to Fuck Buttons, RDS_646

    19 Feb 2010 Reply

  • RDS_646

    I am offended by the lack of plays this band has

    17 Feb 2010 Reply

  • ironarmatom

    Red wire: right temple / Black wire: left temple..

    1 Jan 2010 Reply

  • maja-san

    breathing fire <3 this band is cool

    15 Nov 2009 Reply

  • amiantos

    you can hear body inside a dress and reverse tinman on my site: http://staires.org/audio/1012

    23 Sep 2009 Reply

  • lineass

    i wanna hear body in a dress. had it stuck in my head for dayz

    18 Feb 2009 Reply

  • mensk88

    Compass and Locked Out are sweet

    31 Jan 2009 Reply

  • KizuKid

    i really like the track 'bloodline'. well done!

    29 Jan 2009 Reply

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