Ancient VVisdom

The first thing to understand about Austin, Texas-based Ancient VVisdom, is that the group spells its name with two V's instead of a single W. The second is that they sound like what would happen if the darkest of 1990s grunge acts suddenly became a minimalist folk band. With nothing more than a couple of softly strummed acoustic guitars, whispered vocals and a bit of barely-there percussion, Ancient VVisdom implies the driving force and angrily dark intensity of a band backed by walls of massively distorted guitar amps.