Wylie Toms
New York City, New York, United States
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I to cross over in Williamsburg to see Owen Thomas’s band, Wylie Toms....Loved, the happy bar, and loved Owen’s band when it came on. Owen looked fragile and beautiful and happy onstage. The music was curious but very inviting, lyric-heavy, shot out by Owen’s sturdy baritone, like a love child of Kurt Weill and Dixieland who was adopted in infancy by Leon Redbone. And tutored by Joni Mitchell. But better than my description of it. There’s a future there. - David Hopes: Age of Silver
Harking elements of the Talking Heads with pure simple folk melodies and a velvety clarinet running throughout. - Chris Miller
Discography
Debut Album coming October 2010.
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Bio
Wylie Toms began in May of 2010 with members from various regions and musical backgrounds making for a diverse, eclectic, and ever evolving sound and presence. Since their inception, they have played throughout the New York City area, traveling to surrounding regions, playing in communities such as Local Correspondents, The Whisk & Ladle SupperClub of Williamsburg, Sunday Night Sinner's Club, Catweazle, and the unStandard Saloon.
Their music ranges from simple folk songs with lyrical yarns, dramatic brooding pieces, to exercises in absurdity with noise and heat.
With piano, banjo, guitars, saxophone, clarinet, bass, drums, organs, and harmonies, the Wylie Toms have been likened to Rufus Wainwright, Tom Waits, Beirut, Nick Cave, Talking Heads, Leon Redbone, and The Walkmen among others.
With their debut album slated to release in October of 2010, Wylie Toms are always looking forward. In the words of Playwright and Poet-Laureate David Hopes, "There is a future there."
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