Wild Nothing

Wild Nothing – Nocturne (Remastered) (2012/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:15 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Indie Rock
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Nocturne, the critically acclaimed sophomore album by Wild Nothing, is a window into singer/songwriter Jack Tatum’s “ideal world” of pop music. Written largely while living in Savannah, GA during 2011, the songs that became Nocturne blur the lines between Tatum’s influences and personality. The album features some open references to past music just as his hit debut Gemini did, but it’s also an album that feels much less rooted in anything in particular, and marks a distinct evolution in songwriting for Wild Nothing.

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Wild Nothing – Hold (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:32 minutes | 468 MB | Genre: Indie Pop, Dreampop
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Because Hold, Jack Tatum’s fifth album under the moniker Wild Nothing, was written in the aftermath of new parenthood during the pandemic, it was probably inevitable that it would be searching and existential music. But during the recording process, the artist known for synth-pop tastefulness used it as an opportunity to reach for a new sonic maximalism and wider set of influences. With contributions from longtime collaborator Jorge Elbrecht, Tommy Davidson of Beach Fossils and Hatchie’s Harriette Pilbeam, first single “Headlights On” features an acid house-worthy bass groove and breakbeat that prove Tatum is playing for the rafters.

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Wild Nothing – Hold (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 00:40:32 minutes | 468 MB | Genre: Pop, Rock, Alternatif et Indé
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Wild Nothing – Indigo (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:14 minutes | 498 MB | Genre: Dream Pop, Shoegaze, Indie
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For over a decade, Jack Tatum aka Wild Nothing has served as an indispensable ambassador for dream pop in all its splendour. Wrapping up his larger-than-life, dreamy melodies in guitars that reverberate out to infinity, the Virginian always pays equal attention to the microphone and the pen. His voice carries the same narrative thread, light and blurry, that Morrissey or Robert Smith used to unfurl amidst clouds of melancholy and surrealism with an uneasy charm… Wild Nothing retains this facility for ill-at-ease music that relates untellable stories. With Indigo, Tatum expands his palette, taking on board more synths and Eighties sounds. “I wanted it to sound like a classic studio record, as close as I could get it there”, explains our sculptor of crystalline melodies. “It just boils down to me wanting to fit into some larger narrative, musically, in terms of these artists I love. The records that have influenced the actual sound of Indigo are by Roxy Music, Kate Bush, and Fleetwood Mac; Roxy Music’s Avalon is one of my favourite records ever. I think about how my music will age. Ideas of ‘timeless’ are going to be different — so if Indigo is not timeless then it’s at least ‘out of time.'” Jack Tatum’s strength lies in perfectly fusing these archetypal influences with Wild Nothing’s unique characteristics. At the outset, his fourth album offers a cinematic dream pop, as if the four walls of the student digs where Wild Nothing was born had melted away, to reveal wide open spaces… – Max Dembo

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