"Who taught you to steal in the dark / I wanna know how we got here..."
The darkly romantic weeping guitars and mercurial pop noir of "Grey" by WES SP8, the solo project of Tennessee bred, Seattle based singer songwriter Wes Speight, feels like a sultry lit indie movie about a torturous love affair or lust affair. The sweeping collision of a kind of 70's tragic Americana or Western pop noir, as cinematically drawn and bruised as Lana Del Rey or Emile Haynie, Speight crafts a universe that feels steeped within lost weekends and the kind of existential dread left dripping red down your face after an ass whipping.
"Grey" with it's heightened sense of drama punctuated by a truly gripping cool propulsion of sounds, love the bass push, the orchestral drones that feel somehow like a mix of instrumentation and ambient tones, the squealing surfy guitar sustains and the absolutely sad stacked vocals feels like an indie movie as directed by David Robert Mitchell or Rose Glass. So potently lovely.
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Wes Speight (stylized as Sp8), a Seattle singer/songwriter originally from Tennessee, has played many of the venues in Seattle WA and Nashville TN and has toured to places such as Vancouver BC, Oregon, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Texas, New York, Spain, Italy and France. His music varies widely from Americana to Bluesy to Rock with a weirdo punk attitude. Speight is the frontman of the Blues-Punk trio Wes Sp8 & the Apollo Proxy and is in newly formed bands WaterPenny and Aline & Wes.
"Who taught you to steal in the dark
I wanna know how we got here
Out of the dark and into the
Grey in the middle of change on top of the fence
Safe from the hinders of fear free from desire
Who taught you to deal blackjack in heals
I wanna know how we got here
Blinded by light and into the
Grey in the middle of change on top of the fence
Safe from the hinders of fear free from desire"
I wanna know how we got here
Out of the dark and into the
Grey in the middle of change on top of the fence
Safe from the hinders of fear free from desire
Who taught you to deal blackjack in heals
I wanna know how we got here
Blinded by light and into the
Grey in the middle of change on top of the fence
Safe from the hinders of fear free from desire"
Damn, this song burns like whiskey. "Grey" exists on WES SP8's latest 2024 EP "Salad Paintings".
-Robb Donker Curtius
https://wesspeight.bandcamp.com/album/tessitura
https://www.instagram.com/wesspeight/
https://www.facebook.com/wessp8
Wes Speight (stylized as Sp8), a Seattle singer/songwriter originally from Tennessee, has played many of the venues in Seattle WA and Nashville TN and has toured to places such as Vancouver BC, Oregon, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Texas, New York, Spain, Italy and France. His music varies widely from Americana to Bluesy to Rock with a weirdo punk attitude. Speight is the frontman of the Blues-Punk trio Wes Sp8 & the Apollo Proxy and is in newly formed bands WaterPenny and Aline & Wes.
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https://wesspeight.bandcamp.com/album/tessitura
https://www.instagram.com/wesspeight/
https://www.facebook.com/wessp8
Wes Speight (stylized as Sp8), a Seattle singer/songwriter originally from Tennessee, has played many of the venues in Seattle WA and Nashville TN and has toured to places such as Vancouver BC, Oregon, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Texas, New York, Spain, Italy and France. His music varies widely from Americana to Bluesy to Rock with a weirdo punk attitude. Speight is the frontman of the Blues-Punk trio Wes Sp8 & the Apollo Proxy and is in newly formed bands WaterPenny and Aline & Wes.
WES SP8, indie rock, alt rock, folk, pop noir, Western, Americana, torture pop, darkly romantic, 2024 EP "Salad Paintings", single "Grey", singer songwriter Wes Speight,
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