![]() “All of that experience goes into making this worthwhile for the 30 minutes we’re playing music,” he says. He also spends most of his days building fuzz pedals and repairing vintage guitars and amps at his self-run Moreland Magnetics business. Wiggins has also spent years doing live sound and mixing touring bands in venues including the Earl and 529. He has also spent time composing noise with his solo project Caesium Mine. Of course, Wiggins is pulling from decades of experience that encapsulate everything from playing and touring with a range of bands, including math rock outfit Blame Game and noisy post-punk groups HAWKS and Wymyns Prysyn. “I have worked really hard to make that, and I didn’t want the record to be any different.” That is very intentional for us,” he adds. Despite these variables, it sounds just as good in any situation. We’ve played with everything mic’d up, and we’ve played with the most minimal set up, from a vocal PA in a tiny dive bar to setting up in a record store with a portable PA, and we’ve played with the same intensity. “We’ve played in front of a hundred people and we’ve played in front of five people on this tour. “We play the same, we sound the same, and we have the same amount of fun no matter what,” he says. In conversation, he offers a recent revelation that he’s had about leading the group, which includes bass player Chad LeBlanc and drummer Tom Bruno, while traveling up the East Coast and Mid-Atlantic states for this latest round of touring. He is also the majordomo overseeing all creative and technical facets of the band in pretty much every situation imaginable. Wiggins is the vocalist, guitar player, and principal songwriter for Thousandaire. It’s the definitive statement so far of Thousandaire’s musical DNA and the vocational drive that Wiggins has spent a lifetime honing, while maintaining control over every aspect of the music. “I think it all comes back to consistency,” he says over the phone while traveling from Baltimore to Philadelphia to play a show just a few days before releasing Ideal Conditions, the group’s second full-length recording. Ideal Conditions is an indie rock album that’s rife with layers of sonic textures, all distilled to a point of perfection, or at least Andrew Wiggins’ vision of what perfection should be for Thousandaire’s sound. ![]() THOUSANDAIRE: Andrew Wiggins (from left), Tom Bruno, and Chad LeBlanc. ![]()
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