Hello there... a bit about WM Hunger Made You Brave One Colour More For the Wolf, a Good Meal Photos Video Shows Shop Contact to support my work
Hello there... a bit about WM Hunger Made You Brave One Colour More For the Wolf, a Good Meal Photos Video Shows Shop Contact to support my work

Originally from the Prairies of Canada,Wendy's songs retain her love of wide open space and the longing that such big skies can generate. She is a fan of underdogs, strange cats and brave hearts.These characters are often the centerpieces of her songs which she creates using looped vocals, accordion, and guitar. She has been described as an artist that creates, 'deep twisted tales' and 'wise moving music'. She has released 7 studio albums,contributed her music to indie films, dance and theatre productions, been showcased on numerous compilation cds, and toured in North America, Europe, Brazil and Japan. file under: Folk Noir

"Every festival offers someone to discover, and for me that was Wendy McNeill, an Edmonton musician whose sharp-edged songs with accordion and guitar seem like dispatches from a post rock cabaret."
Robert Everett-Green, The Globe and Mail

Some might call it folk noir—pish! It’s far more brooding than that—imagine a female-fronted Gogol Bordello crawling through molasses and holding hands with Stephin Merritt See Magazine/CA

If ever there were an artist that couldn’t be pigeonholed, it could more than likely be Wendy McNeill of Canada. She swiftly shifts from sexy and sultry-bordering-on-masochistic to a haunting waltz backed by a looped angelic voice that belongs on Goldfrapp’s ‘Utopia’, each cleverly opposing one another but combined to build what is often a kooky and colourful, occasionally macabre masterpiece.
Wears The Trousers Magazine /UK

such a common bird

i am a lone wolf
a beauty and a beast
both hunter and hunted
soft tongue and sharp teeth
i'm toned from my travels
but raw from this road
as i drink from storm puddles
and the stories i'm told

help me figure this out
help me figure you in
you're a shadow to me
that i echo when sing
help me figure this out
help me figure you in-
to this simple little melody

I have seen angels
they were sleeping in gutters
they were standing in bank lines
they were jumping from towers
they were calling like seagulls
but nobody heard
such a beautiful message
from such a common bird

we want freedom for ourselves
but we can´t give it to each other
we want peace between nations
yet we battle with our lovers
we´re blinded by billboards
and trying to get ahead
choking on ambition
and the words left unsaid

all the words left unsaid weave a simple little melody... WM

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