Laughing Matter 07/29/2008 the material was no match

the material was no match for the Michael Brown-penned classics

Recorded at Music Works

A5        Preoccupied

Thanks to steady touring and a debut album whose sales picked up at a steady clip after its release

Laughing Matter 07/29/2008 the material was no matchThe new Wand album is a generous double album, a record of love and terror experienced in epic doses. "Laughing Matter" is part fuzzy parable, travel diary, pep talk and lullaby, with Wand going as far they can, from concise guitar rock to multifarious, eclectic pastiche, rich with disruption and ascendant choruses. Wand form new music from the ashes of a world that can no longer suffer its human abusers, to inspire us to hold the spirit close and do