Boston-based Y2k-era hardcore/doom outfit THERE WERE WIRES is preparing for their celebrated 2003-released Somnambulists album to be issued on vinyl for the first time ever this month via newly reactivated Iodine Recordings in conjunction with Tor Johnson Records. BrooklynVegan is now hosting a premiere of the band’s newly unearthed cover of Sonic Youth’s “Tunic.” THERE WERE WIRES’ Somnambulists is a full-album experience that combines heavy, droning, and bluesy riffs with atmospheric interludes. The record follows a theme of loss, regret, sleepwalking, and darkness, and is a must-hear for fans of Neurosis, Converge, Isis, Pageninetynine, American Nightmare, Botch, Old Man Gloom, and Doomriders. Eighteen years after its initial delivery, Somnambulists arrives in grand vinyl format, remaste...
