Ten years after its release, Wye Oaks Civilian remains a raw, sinewy punch of a recordbleak and intense and lonely and self-assured all at once. When Andy Stack and Jenn Wasner released Civilian, it marked both the ascension and death of Wye Oak, or at least a version of it. Now, a decade later, Civilian + Cut All the Wires: 20092011 delves back into that pivotal record and adds a lost album of unreleased tracks and demos to Civilians universe.

Cut All the Wires: 20092011, a 12-song collection of rare and unreleased tracks and demos culled from the Wye Oak archives, is an extension of the bruised and aching Civilian. Sonic paradoxes abound: the mellow Sinking Ship is preceded by the wall-of-sound grunginess that roars through Half a Double Man. A pared-down acoustic Daytrotter live session of Two Small Deaths dovetails into the jangling Holy Holy demo. The closing lyrics over the frenetic, screeching feedback of Electricity lend the anniversary release its title: Theres nothing about you that I dont adore / Show me these rooms / and Ill show you the way to the door / Walk me through / Ill cut all the wires and spend my life with you.

Civilian
A1. Two Small Deaths
A2. The Alter
A3. Holy Holy
A4. Dogs Eyes
A5. Civilian
B1. Fish
B2. Plains
B3. Hot As Day
B4. We Were Wealth
B5. Doubt

Cut All The Wires: 2009-2011
C1. Replacement
C2. Civilian (Demo)
C3. No Words
C4. Electricity
C5. Half A Double Man
C6. Sinking Ship
D1. Two Small Deaths (Daytrotter Session)
D2. Holy Holy (Demo)
D3. Pardon
D4. Black Is The Color
D5. Ten Fingers
D6. I’m Proud