Accomplished solo artist and film and television composer Craig Wedren, who first made a name for himself as the inimitable front-person of legendary Dischord Records art-punk band Shudder To Think, has kicked off 2018 with an exceptionally busy January.
Wedren and Dischord Records will release a remastered version of Shudder To Think’s second studio album Ten Spot on 1/26/18. The re-release, which is being take from the original tapes and pressed to limited blue vinyl is available for pre-order now (PRESS HERE).
Wedren will also be at Sundance Film Festivalpromoting A Futile and Stupid Gesture, the new film from David Wain.Wedren scored the music for A Futile and Stupid Gesture, a film which captures the success and influence of National Lampoon’s empire, overseen in part by the brilliant and troubled Doug Kenney. Starring Will Forte, Joel McHale, Seth Green and a cluster of other familiar faces to the Wain roster, A Futile and Stupid Gesture reunites Wain and Wedren, who have previously partnered on the Wet Hot American Summer franchise, The State and Wainy Days.
Wedren will also perform at Sundance at the BMI presented Snowball 2018 on January 23rd (The Shop – 1167 Woodside Ave, Park City, UT: Doors at 7:30pm). List space is available upon request. Following the premiere at Sundance on January 24, 2018, A Futile and Stupid Gesture will launch everywhere via Netflix on January 26, 2018.
The new film and the remastered release of Ten Spot come on the heels of the release of Wedren’s first solo album in nearly a decade Adult Desire. Additionally, Wedren has created an extremely innovative virtual reality app to accompany the release called Adult Desire 360, which is comprised of three panoramic music videos centered around themes of love, home, sex, family, and age. Over the course of the next year, Craig plans to release at least two more volumes, each adding to the overall story of Adult Desire. These unique video EPs will each feature different sets of songs from the album and be unique to each viewing.
Wedren describes Adult Desire, the first record he’s made since moving to Los Angeles, as “Domestic Surrealism.” A deeply melodic collision of acoustic and electronic elements, with Wedren’s singular voice, lyrics, and fractal arrangements mapping the complexities of adulthood in a way that feels both familiar and entirely unique, it pinpoints “the strange magnificence of family, home, and age; and the weirdness of the mundane… kind of like the way David Lynch holds for just-too long on a shot of a lawn, turning it into something monstrous and beautiful. It’s basically a freaky love-letter to my wife and to my life; and of course, to our son.” You can download Adult Desire if you PRESS HERE.
