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SELLING POINTS:

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Wheat's last full length record has

soundscanned over 30,000 copies in the

United States, with their last full length

release in Europe selling over 20,000 copies.

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Wheat have shared the stage with

everybody from Death Cab for Cutie to

Oasis to The Flaming Lips. They have toured

all over the world, including back to back

performances on both Late Night with

Conan O'Brien and Last Call with Carson

Daly.

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Wheat is adored by the press and their

previous releases have made record of the

year in everything from NME, MOJO, to

UNCUT. They have been featured in Rolling

Stone, SPIN, Entertainment Weekly, NY

Times, and everything in-between.

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Wheat are a favorite among film and TV

music supervisors and have had many high

profile film and TV placements including,

Wheat fan, Cameron Crowe's highly visible

Elizabethtown, where the band was also

featured on the soundtrack. This release is

being worked by the band's publisher,

Chrysalis Music Publishing.

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Extensive domestic publicity, radio, and

video campaigns. Wheat's last full length

did very well at AAA/Commercial radio,

receiving almost 10,000 commercial spins

nationally for their single "I Met a Girl".

S t r e e t D a t e : M a y 2 2 , 2 0 0 7

L a b e l : E m p y r e a n R e c o r d s

C a t a l o g # : S K Y 0 2 6

F o r m a t : C D

U P C : 8 0 3 6 4 5 0 0 2 6 2 6

TRACKS

closeness

little white dove

move=move

i had angels watching over me

init .005 (formerly, a case of...)

saint in law

what you got

to, as in addressing the grave

round in the corners

an exhausted fixer

courting ed templeton

Memory plays a crucial role in the music of Wheat, one of the most enigmatic
and compelling rock bands of the past decade. And never more profoundly has
the theme, the *act*, of remembering played so critical a role in the making of
that music than on the Massachusetts outfit’s stunning new Empyrean Records
CD, “Everyday I Said A Prayer For Kathy And Made A One Inch Square.” Even
the album’s cryptic title, drummer Brendan Harney explains, is “about
remembering through a ritual. We lose things we love, sometimes, in life.
People turn corners and things change ... Then we decide to make a square,
simply to remember – or hope, maybe.”  Wheat’s fourth full-length album, and
the core of the band itself, is about all of those things.

    What began 10 years ago as a brilliant art project in sound between Harney
and Scott Levesque (vocals, guitar) at the University of Massachusetts-
Dartmouth (where both were, in fact, art students) has now been restored to its
beginnings, original luster intact. From the celestial shimmer of “Closeness,”
which opens the new album, to the pastoral instrumental poem, “Courting Ed
Templeton,” which closes it, “Everyday I Said A Prayer ...” marks a splendid
return to the incandescent form that yielded Wheat’s bumper crop of
masterworks that included 1997's “Medeiros,” and 1999's indie-pop gem, “Hope
and Adams.”

   2003's “Per Second, Per Second, Per Second ... Every Second” represented
the band’s foray into the major label sweepstakes – a stint which brought with it
heavy touring, high-profile TV appearances, and ultimately, misery. Second
guitarist Ricky Brennan bade the band farewell. Exhausted and disillusioned,
Wheat retreated into a long silence. Rumors that the band had broken up were
not so quiet. “We just needed a break,” recalls Levesque. Adds Harney: “We
had to decide what we wanted (Wheat) to be.”

     Eventually, the two old friends, restless to make music again, re-convened
between the summers of 2005 and 2006 to try out some new tracks, just to see
where the songs and ideas might lead. They had no label. They had no
recording schedule. They had no deadlines. But they remembered the old
rituals, and in doing so, discovered they were able to reclaim the supernal
sound, ineffable chemistry, and music-magic of Wheat. “We were in that great
spot again,” says Levesque. “We make records in our own little world, and
that’s where we went to.” It was, and continues to be, a luminescent universe
gilded with dreams and benedictions and cosmic imagination. Now at long last,
with "Everyday I Said A Prayer..." Wheat has returned and is back among us in
our world, right where it belongs.

   – Jonathan Perry, 2007

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