WALLGRIN — Yet Again The Wheel Turns

Following their mythologically-inspired 2018 debut Bird/Alien, Yet Again The Wheel Turns broadens Wallgrin’s musical and thematic range, shaped by influences such as 1970s progressive rock, Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain, and surrealist philosophy.

Yet Again The Wheel Turns reflects on themes of inevitability, recurring patterns, and yielding to unalterable forces. Various songs explore reincarnation (“Yet Again The Wheel Turns” and “Life Is Over”), mass extinction (“Slice In The Mouth”), the climate crisis (“At Rest”), unhealthy patterns of romantic love (“Every Fall, I Fall in Love” and “Silver Trail”), and the futility of seeking the meaning of life (“Yolk”, “PseudoReligion”, and “Knowing”). The entire album is also bound together by the interweaving of musical elements from song to song, with melodies re-emerging and bass lines repeating in various choruses, bridges and verses.

“This is an album about feeling ecstatically powerless. In other words, the act of surrendering to natural cycles, such as disease, death, and heartbreak, that are ultimately beyond human influence. Then, there are also those recurring patterns in our lives that are perhaps not so fateful — where maybe the cycle, the wheel itself, can be broken. In either case, accepting inevitability can feel delectably freeing, or rather like a prison. When is it necessary to take control, and when is it best to relinquish it?”