Among the most distinctive and influential figures on the vital southeastern new wave scene, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer (The B-52s, Pylon), and self-styled “guitar egghead” Kevin Dunn makes startlingly inventive music that is a uniquely southern refracts of the melodic, textural and lyrical possibilities of avant-garde pop.

A fictional world of musical siblings and other characters serves as a backdrop for King Wilkie Presents: The Wilkie Family Singers, the third and most ambitious album yet from King Wilkie. There is no plot or storyline, no dialog; only a set of imaginary familial characters as a background for the album’s twelve songs. “I had in mind doing something that would be about a family of musical people, and about their odd development as a family. You aren’t supposed to know that much about these characters,” says King Wilkie founder Reid Burgess, “and you shouldn’t need to in order to listen to the album.”