Wild Nothing will follow up their excellent 2012 LP Nocturne with a new 7-song EP due out May 14th on Captured Tracks/Bella Union. Jack Tatum recorded Empty Estate earlier this year in Brooklyn at Gary’s Electric with Al Carlson, and he used the studio experience to expand his approach, trying out new sounds and instruments, as well as a different lyrical perspective or voice. Tatum explains,
“This is a record that happened very fast for me. We had just gotten back from a particularly long European tour last November, our first supporting Nocturne, and I was feeling a lot of things. I found myself struggling with what it meant to be a musician, with what music in general meant to me and what part I could possibly play in it. Playing the same songs every night for months left me bored with myself. But when I got home, for the first time in awhile it suddenly seemed that the pressure was off. We didn’t have any tours planned for several months and I started to remember again why I love music in the first place. I listened to Brian Eno and David Bowie for weeks on end and felt like I was hearing them for the first time. I took a trip to Miami with my girlfriend. I visited my family. I felt free to try things musically that I would have stifled before. The songs on this EP were recorded over a 10 day period and are a reflection of this time. Of all the frustrations and successes and moments of peace in between.”
Wild Nothing’s new video for the track “A Dancing Shell” features Brooklyn artist Eric Shaw‘s flat, abstract, vaguely anthropomorphic paintings animated by Hayley Akins and Andy Williams. Don’t miss the Wild Nothing tour dates following the video…
Wild Nothing Spring/Summer 2013 Tour Dates:
Mar 23 Barcelona – Primavera
Mar 25 London – Field Day
May 30 Porto – Optimus Primavera Sound
Jun 08 New York, NY – Governor’s Ball
Jul 24 New York, NY – Terminal 5*
Jul 25 Boston, MA – House of Blues*
Aug 03 Montreal, QC – Osheaga Festival
Aug 04 Chicago, IL – Lollapalooza
* w/ Father John Misty
