Brooklyn trio WOLF! featuring guitarist Scott Metzger announce their upcoming 2nd LP, 1-800-WOLF!, due out October 14 on Royal Potato Family. The first single from the new record was premiered via Guitar World Magazine. Check out "Pork n' Slaw" here.

1-800-WOLF! represents everything that eludes chest-thumping power trios and even many small jazz ensembles. Nobody shows off, there are no fireworks, no screaming solos. In it's place, the music of WOLF! overflows with atmosphere—a wisp of Parisian swing in “Oaxaca Ox,” a dreamy seaside mist in “Bohemian Grove,” a Tarantino moonlight spell on “Furry Freedom,” a creamy, gorgeous texture on “Denim Love Affair,” where Metzger’s solo, as always unadorned by effects, is so spare it’s almost not there. And on every track, silences speak as eloquently as the notes they surround.

WOLF! formed on a fateful night in Brooklyn when Metzger, bassist Jon Shaw and drummer Taylor Floreth showed up to play a gig backing a singer. After the singer no-showed, the club asked the three to play anyway. They did, and they won the crowd over, which prompted the venue owner to invite the trio now known as WOLF! to play a weekly residency.

All three members of the band broke into music as sidemen—professional musicians rather than "wannabe stars." Metzger has performed countless sessions and shows with artists as diverse as Trixie Whitley, Phil Lesh & Friends, Moby and Nicole Atkins, while also holding down lead guitar duties for summer festival favorites, Joe Russo’s Almost Dead. Shaw has anchored the bottom end for Cass McCombs, Shakey Graves and Sharon Van Etten among many others. Floreth emerged from New York’s Collective School of Music and has since played shows with blues innovator Bill Sims Jr., guitarists Jim Campilongo and Avi Bortnick and singer/songwriter Kelli Scarr.

1-800-WOLF! Is Out October 14
On LP, CD & Digital
Via Royal Potato Family