Artist Wheat

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Massachusetts ambient popsmiths Wheat have seemingly changed identities with every album. During their 13-year run, they've been mealy-mouthed indie-rockers cut from the Pavement cloth on their 1998 debut Medeiros, dream-pop boundary-pushers downing the Flaming Lips Kool-Aid on 1999’s David Fridmann-produced Hope & Adams, and squeaky-clean would-be adult-pop stars on 2003’s overly polished stab at mainstream success, Per Second, Per Second, Per Second … Every Second. Leaving the major-label world behind five years ago, Wheat is once again as weird as it wants to be, although its new album, White Ink, Black Ink, restores some of the propulsive pop melodies that were absent from its predecessor, landing Wheat in the indefinable gray space between outré indie and hummable pop that’s always been the band's wheelhouse.

Updated 08/18/2009