We Will Build stumbled into my life sometime during my first month as a DJ, at my request for some good talk-break music to keep the energy going between sets. It's a grave misstep, however, to suggest that We Will Build is in any way background music--they're far too manically energized to remain the backdrop.
We Will Build is joy and bright lights, dancing in fields and drunk stargazing. They're saturated with blips and bleeps and glitches-turned to drumbeats, the earthy crunch of cymbals and the aquatic echo of timpany. Their latest album, This Is Necessary, draws them away from the sheer brightness of their first (called just Untitled Collection on the site), throwing in more loops and whorls and what can really only be called a breakdown. It's suited to the kind of dancing that's really more flailing limbs, out of breath, explosive expressions of youth.
In the age where every afterthought has a blog post, there's precious little to be found online about We Will Build. You can check out their website to download their full catalog of music, including Liphe Sonuds, an improvisational album sans any sort of instrument in the conventional sense of the word, and stocked instead with captured sounds via a gritty tape recorder. Other than that and a few dead YouTube videos, there's really not much to be read. I'm somewhat charmed by We Will Build's seeming lack of concern about whether the world at large has any idea what they're doing with themselves. Their news feed hasn't been updated since August, and the only sign of life is the erratic comments on their Yellbox that hint at a new album to come soon. They could live down the street or across the world. They could have six new albums ready to come out or have not touched an instrument since this summer. I've no idea.
It just goes to show: don't judge a band by its Wikipedia page.
We Will Build, "Pandaemonium"
We Will Build, "Dirk"
We Will Build, "Out These Doors Inside"
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