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Release Date: 2022-06-19Label: Leapantique
My long search for Wayne & Liz began in January, 2006 when I was living in Tokyo. One morning over breakfast (white Daily Yamazaki toast glazed with impossibly smooth Sunton peanut cream, black coffee), I encountered a post by the poet and archivist Kenneth Goldsmith (radio alias Kenny G) on WFMU's essential Beware Of The Blog. It gushed thus:"Middle American husband and wife team Wayne and Liz are the Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsome of lo-fi Christian rock. Just when the alt-Christian musical landscape looked bleak following in the wake of WFMU's beloved Danielson, here comes Wayne and Liz. Sounding like a mix between Daniel Johnston and Moe Tucker singing "Jesus" with the Velvet Underground, this is some of the most wonderful outsider lo-fi stuff we've come across. "9-11 Warning" is a 12-minute outsider conspiracy tour-de-force rant and the other tracks are pure, aching beauty. And best of all, they're most likely not even aware of their avant-status. They have released no CDs and there's virtually no information about them -- true outsiders. There's a huge whack of amazing MP3s here. Our advice: download them all!"
On playing just two songs, I went over to Wayne & Liz's website with its animated doves and played some more songs...and then some more...and later that evening, heeding sage Kenny's directive, downloaded them all. Only three days later, the link was dead and the site was never resurrected. A frustrated poster (Mike) commented: "Can't get through to ampcast. You know that's annoying me no end right now. What these xians hiding from now?"
A week or so later having spent time listening to all of the recordings, I was moved to comment on the WFMU blog: "One hell of a find. And a fluttering dove on the website (170 hits and counting). This is up there on the highest marble ridges of the pantheon of untutored, unmediated masters. Daniel Johnston, Connie Cook, Fran Baskerville, Janeen Brady, Gen Orange, Wayne & Liz. Thank you, Jesus."
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