My Firsts is our email interview series where we ask musicians to tell us about their first life experiences, be it early childhood ones (first word, first concert, etc.) or their first tastes of being a musician (first band, first tour, etc.). For this My Firsts we talk to Kevin Whelan of Aeon Station (and formerly of The Wrens).
Aeon Station is the new solo project of Whelan’s. His debut album as Aeon Station, , came out in December on Sub Pop. This was after The Wrens spent many years laboring over the follow-up to 2005’s . In 2014, The Wrens tweeted that they had a fourth studio album completed and ready to put out,