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• Artist: Wheat
• Album: Everyday I Said A Prayer For Kathy And Made A One Inch Square
• Label: Empyrean
• Year of Release: 2007
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• Reviewed by: dscanland on 2007-05-24

Damn, a Wheat release totally sneaks up on you. I had no idea that Brendan Harney and Scott Levesque were due for a new album. Their last album, Per Second, Per Second, Per Second...Every Second was Wheat's first dabbling into the world of the major labels and they were ultimately miserable with all the expectations that were put upon them. So here they are on the small Empyrean label and have once again created a lovely little masterpiece. It seems that the major label stint did have a casualty. Ricky Brennan decided to opt out of this album. On the surface, it doesn't appear that any magic disappeared from the loss.

I do have to admit that I've been a Wheat fan since day 1, but I can't recall what possessed me to check out Medieros but it was one of the most beautiful and different albums I had heard. Now onto their fourth album Wheat is bound to get noticed if they keep putting out quality material like this. Everyday I Said A Prayer For Kathy and Made A One Inch Square starts out with the lovely "Closeness". It has a gentle intro and while building a little it never gets obnoxious. The next track, "Little White Dove" seems to have a little of the "Don't I Hold You" feel from previous albums (it was on their last two albums). "Dove" gets going a little faster than the previous song but I don't know if Wheat could technical "rock-out". "Move = Move" is a nice extension for Wheat. It starts out acoustically then a bit of a electronic sample ushers us into the full song.

I actually found "Init .005 (Formerly, A Case Of...)" a hard listen. It seemed to drag on a little. That's my only complaint about Everyday though. The following track ("Saint In Law") is so lovely that it almost makes up for it.

So while Wheat hasn't grown much on this release, it shows a band who has been eaten a major label, spit out, and left for dead, actually surviving and ended up right back where they were.

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