Peer Validated

Pictured: Wye Oak. The kind of kids who acted like dinosaurs for the whole third grade.

“You know your secret’s safe with me,” promises Wye Oak’s Jenn and Andy. “If you feel young.” Their new album, If Children, feels like a Sunday morning of frolicking between bed sheets and letting just little bits of light in through the curtains. The kind of shit your too-busy mom tells you is just “wasting time,“ but is probably the best part of your Sunday morning. Simple guitar strums and duo whispery vocals control the songs’ movements with both ease and comfort, a playfulness that offers, above all else, security, in that it wouldn’t know how to harm you if it wanted to.

Wye Oak - I Don’t Feel Young

I Don’t Feel Young is just barely-there for half of the song, but it works itself up pretty well by the end. A real sweet pleaser, this one.