Wild Pink – ILYSM [CD]

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: RMR1632
Barcode: 0044003274457
Release Date: 14 Oct 2022
Genre: Alternative

The fourth full-length from Wild Pink, ILYSM unfolds with all the fractured beauty of a dreamscape. Over the course of 12 chameleonic tracks, the New York-bred rock band build another world inhabited by ghosts and angels and aliens, inciting a strange and lovely daze as the backdrop shifts from the mundane (subdivisions, highways, hotel parking lots) to the extraordinary (deserts, battlefields, the moon). But within its vast imagination lies a potent truth-telling on the part of singer/guitarist John Ross, whose lyrics closely examine his recent struggle with cancer. The follow-up to 2021’s A Billion Little Lights — a critically acclaimed effort praised by the likes of Pitchfork, NPR, Vulture, and Stereogum, who named it “one of the prettiest rock records of the past decade”—ILYSM emerges as a truly revelatory body of work, transforming the most painful reflection into moments of transcendence.

"Whether you're a music-first or lyrics-first listener, Wild Pink makes music for you.” - NPR

"open-air, stargazing indie rock" - The New York Times

"Splitting the difference between War on Drugs and Death Cab for Cutie, the latest from the Brooklyn band offers indie rock at its most familiar and instantly gratifying." - Pitchfork

"One of the most exquisitely pretty rock albums in recent memory" - Stereogum "One of rock's tiny masterpieces" - Billboard