You could say that a lot has happened since the release of Los Angeles based Wax Idols’ critically well-received 2013 album, Discipline + Desire, and if you’ re steeped in the shorthand of music criticism go-to narratives, it would be dangerously easy to get reductive about what happened next: The band’s singer-songwriter, Hether Fortune, supported the album as best she could, spent some time in 2014 as a touring player in White Lung, went through a heartbreaking divorce, and then sat down to make American Tragic – the long-awaited third album and first for Collect Records.
Indeed, this is not only a deeply personal record, but a chiefly independent one: As a songwriter and true multi-instrumentalist, Fortune wrote and recorded everything but the drums on American Tragic – a feat only bolstered by the album’s compelling performances and meticulous execution, but a little known fact nonetheless.

• Third album from Los Angeles’ Wax Idols, co-produced by Hether Fortune and Monte Vallier (Weekend, Mark Eitzel, The Soft Moon, Vaniish)
• The band’s first two releases came via Slumberland
• Album launched with “Lonely You” as the lead track
• Chief singer-songwriter Hether Fortune is well-known from her time as bassist in White Lung
• Music video for “Lonely You” to premiere in September