The Wanderer Along - A PORTRAIT OF ME
Released: July 20 On what appears to be their first album, Indiana-based artist The Wanderer Along tells a short but engaging story about odd and terrifying happenings in the strangely-chosen town of Kingfisher, Oklahoma. The story is told through a sort of public access channel broadcast, somewhere in between a weather station and the TV guide, and opens up on a good note with “ 6:00AM (SIGNING ON)” but slowly morphs into a terrifying public emergency involving alien doppelgängers. As you might have guessed, the album borrows heavily from the analog horror genre with nods to The Mandela Tapes, Local 58, and SCP-adjacent emergency alert scenarios. The album follows a full broadcast day all the way to “3:00AM (SIGNING OFF)” by which time the community has fallen into pure terror. A big piece that the album really nails in this regard is the pacing as we keep getting lulled back into easy and relaxed motifs that are periodically broken by unnerving broadcasts that talk about a...
