Waldemar

Waldemar combines soaring vocals and poignant, confessional lyrics against a dense backdrop of guitar tapestries and synth textures to deliver a sonic freight train of an album. The new record Ruthless is a journeyman musician’s fixation, the renegade harmonies of a blue-collar poet.Recorded over five years, Ruthless is an act of remarkable commitment. For two of those years, Larson painstakingly transformed a century-old horse barn on his property into a professional recording studio.Ruthless is the relentless vision of a musician perfecting a sound. Cascades of guitars, synths and vocals wash over the listener like rivers polishing stone, like grit on grains of wood. In a Midwestern setting that gave rise to so many other American dreams, Ruthless is a testament to the power of struggle, that we are made by what we make.