Windsor For The Derby

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Songwriters

Daniel Matz
Jason McNeely

In a world of “slow” movements that rail against mindless consumption, rock survivalists Windsor for the Derby represent “slow” music. For their latest outing, they began with a set of seemingly infinite drones and loops inspired by their early beginnings as a band. As those recordings were passed back and forth, the sounds were further sculpted by Dan Matz and Jason McNeely into their own leftfield brand of pop song. This became Against Love.

While they experimented with more formalized rock structures on their past few albums, Against Love finds the balance between experimentation and rock tradition more heavily skewed toward the former. The songs are filled with tried & true conventions; some with pedal steel and acoustic guitar (“Dull Knives,” “After Love”), and others in waves of warm feedback and synth (“Queen of the Sun,” “Autumn Song”). Lyrically the songs are about how the modern world is changing the human condition, how we decide to land when the floor is pulled out from under us, and how hope is born from loss. The songs were shaped over months in backstage rooms, hotels, vans, and wherever else Matz and McNeely found time during WFTD’s European and American tours of the past two years. Tracks were finalized in Matz’s haunted Hope Union Studio, where disengaged clock chimes, spectral taps, and mysterious footsteps are a constant cause for another take; some left in the mix.

Releases

Windsor For The Derby Against Love

Against Love
Autumn Song
After Love
Queen Of The Sun
Singer 1968
Moon Shadows
Our Love's A Calamity
Alex Lucero
Dull Knives
Hips
Cursed Ages
Tropical Depression

Windsor For The Derby How We Lost

Let Go
Maladies
Robin Robinette
Fallen Off The Earth
Hold On
Forgotten
Troubles
What We Want
Good Things
Spirit Fade

Windsor For The Derby Giving Up The Ghost

Dirge For A Pack of Lies
Empathy For People Unknown
Praise/ Shadows
The Front
Giving Up
The Light Is On
Gathering
Science
Every Word You Ever Said

Windsor For The Derby We Fight Till Death

The Melody of a Fallen Tree
The Cutter
Nightingale
The Door is Red
Logic and Surprise
Black Coats
A Spring Like Sixty
For People Unknown
We Fight Til Death
Flight

Windsor For The Derby The Emotional Rescue LP

The Same
Now I Know The Sea
Emotional Rescue
Fall Of 68'
Indonesian Guitars
Mythologies
Awkwardness
Another Rescue
Donkey Ride

Windsor For The Derby Difference And Repetition

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Shaker
The Egg
Nico
Lost In Cycles

Windsor For The Derby Minnie Greutzfeldt

Fat Angel, Skinny Ghost
Stasis
Bass Trap
No Techno W/ Drums
When I See Scissors
Useless Arm
Skimming
Exposite
Moving Florida
Slow Death
Slow Death +
The Electric Co.

Windsor For The Derby Calm Hades Float

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