Friday, March 14   9:00 p.m.
The Parish   (214B E 6th St)

Wye Oak are Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack. Jenn & Andy have been playing music and writing songs together and apart in Baltimore and chose their name from the honorary state tree of Maryland.

If Children is an exuberant and assured debut seamlessly combining elements of noise, folk, and shoegaze to create a style all their own.

In their own words:

When our band plays live, Jenn plays guitar and sings and Andy plays the drums and keyboard and sings. When we record, Andy and Jenn sing and play all the instruments, although each of us play some things better than others.

Many people have said that our album sounds lush, layered and full, and that we do a pretty good job of capturing that sound on stage, although there are just two of us. We'd like to think that if a song is good enough, it'll stand on its own regardless of how much noise you pile on top. On the other hand, we do like noise.