“I wrote this album because I had to,” saysThe Wrecks’ vocalist/producer Nick Anderson on the making of Sonder, the band’s critically-hailed June 2022 sophomore album which will get a Deluxe Edition arriving on October 28, 2022 via Big Noise. In honor of this announcement, the band has released the blustering alt pop single “Things You Make Me Do,” about being in an inescapable one-way relationship. “I was processing a breakup slowly and poorly, and for a while there, the breakup was winning,” Anderson continues. “There was a point when making the album, though, he says the tables turned and the breakup became the inspiration for his creativity to return and make this album that he’s really proud of.
Sonder (Deluxe) collects not only their distinctive witty, frantic genre-bending tracks that made the original album land on Spotify’s Top 10 U.S. Album Charts release week (“Sonder,” “I Love This Part,” “Lone Survivor,” and “Where Are You Now” featuring girlhouse), but also adds bonus content with acoustic and remixed versions of original Sonder songs like “Sonder (Acoustic),” “Normal (Acoustic),” “Lone Survivor (Molly Otto Remix),” “Dystopia (Molly Otto Remix),” as well as a handful of B-Sides.
Highlighting the band’s elevated and triumphal alt-rock, Sonder saw Anderson experimenting with minor keys and calculated lyrics which “opened up [their] writing process. I’d say our lyrics have always been honest and vulnerable, and not only was I able to depend on that narrative compass once again, but I found it taking me to a whole new place this time creatively,” he explains. “Making this album was a very difficult, sleepless journey that took a lot out of me, but each day and night throughout that process, I could see the light at the end of the tunnel,” he exclaims. “But I knew I was onto something; I hadn’t felt this excited or optimistic about releasing a body of work in my entire career.”
Sonder (Deluxe) will be available right as the band are in the midst of their Back And Better Than Ever Tour featuring support from CARR and Arlie. The Back And Better Than Ever Tour follows the band’s wildly successful, 90% sold out, June/July legand it kicks off with a performance at Sonoma Harvest Festival in Sonoma, CA on October 9 before concluding onNovember 19 at Majestic Theater in Ventura, CA. In-between, the band will hit cities such asLas Vegas, Detroit, Baltimore, Miami, New Orleans, Houston, San Diego, and more. Tickets and VIP can be found at WeAreTheWrecks.com
