Wheat

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Wheat's debut album Medeiros, released in 1998 on Sugar Free Records, was recorded by Dave Auchenbach and mixed by Red Red Meat's Brian Deck. Madaras left the group (and was never permanently replaced) prior to the release of their second Sugar Free album, 1999's Hope and Adams, which was recorded/coproduced by Dave Fridmann at Tar Box Studios in Fredonia, New York, and included the song Don't I Hold You. The group left Sugar Free and signed on with London-based Nude Records in 2000. The label folded soon after. Wheat continued writing, and after a two-year period of record-business limbo, they signed with Aware Records, which had a distribution deal with Columbia Records, in 2002. The original version of Per Second, Per Second, Per Second ... Every Second, however, was never released. Some of the songs recorded for the unreleased Nude album would survive as naked versions on the Too Much Time compilation [Aware/Columbia], some were rerecorded for the later version of Per Second, Per Second, Per Second ... Every Second. The new version of Per Second, Per Second, Per Second ... Every Second was released in 2003; the track Some Days was included in the film Win a Date With Tad Hamilton! and on its soundtrack album, I Met a Girl appeared in A Cinderella Story, and the 2003 version of Don't I Hold You was featured in Elizabethtown. Following touring, including supports for Liz Phair, Toad the Wet Sprocket, and Blake Babies, a few late-night television appearances (Late Night With Conan O'Brien, Last Call With Carson Daly), Wheat took time to reevaluate their status and regain creative control.[citation needed] They were released from Aware/Columbia in early 2004. Brennan left the band to form Duresse, self-releasing the seven-song EP Elate in 2006, and is currently performing solo in the Boston area and working on his first solo album. In 2006 Wheat completed writing and recording their fourth album, Everyday I Said a Prayer for Kathy and Made a One Inch Square with Rick Lescault at Electric Ali Studios in Fairhaven, MA. Preceded by the mini-album That's Exactly What I Wanted... Exactly That in December 2006, the album was released by Empyrean Records on May 2007. An EP titled Move=Move, featuring exclusive tracks and multimedia content, was also organized for release in February 2008, but was pulled at the last minute for undisclosed reasons. This caused much frustration for fans who had preordered the EP in advance, and was possibly the catalyst for Wheat...