Warm in the Wake

Inspired with the bare-bones pop prowess of musicians like Bob Dylan and Johnny Funds, the members of Atlanta, GA’s King Lear Plane, an organization that acquired some success peddling songs to displays like Felicity and Dawson’s Creek, changed themselves into Warm in the Wake in the first 2000s. The group, which maintained Ruler Lear Jet’s unique lineup of Alabama natives Chris Rowell (vocals), Wayne Taylor, Jr. (drums), and brothers Andy and Daniel Barker (bass and keyboards, respectively) and led their sound in to the sort of lush, cosmic, folky surfaces that nodded to rootsiness of alt-country rockers like Wilco as well as the psychedelic swirliness of works just like the Apples in Stereo system and XTC. Warm in the Wake’s debut EP, Slot of Quick Results, premiered in 2003. Another EP, Yellow metal Dust Trail, as well as the group’s debut full-length, American Prehistoric, adopted four years later on.