Labels: Captured Tracks
Review by: Andy Malcolm
I never got around to reviewing several of my favourite records of 2010, which is kind of a shame and something I want to put right in 2011. Wild Nothing’s Gemini LP was definitely my favourite album last year, and they doubled up on that by putting on an asbolutely spellbinding show in Copenhagen that was right up there with the best gigs I have ever seen. Here we have a 4 track 12″ that picks up where that LP left off. 4 songs of shimmering indie pop haze, taking cues from the Cure and New Order and then stirring up such perfectly pretty songs. The vocals are soft and lurking on the edge of the instrumentation, but fit to a tee, perhaps even better than they did on Gemini. “Golden Haze” and “Your Rabbit Feet” are the two corkers on here, the other two tracks don’t quite measure up, but you’re a hard task master if you expect them to write 4 songs of that quality on a stop-gap EP, when there’s a new LP coming out this year.
If you’ve already heard Wild Nothing and genuflect in their direction, then Golden Haze is not going to change matters, everything here will be precisely what you requested. If you haven’t heard them, then if you have any space in your soul for lazy, electronically tinged indie pop, then I am quite surprised that you haven’t come across them already. Then again, this is the age of a billion bands and not enough time to steal more than 10 second glimmer via an MP3 blog. Maybe reviews will even come back into fashion. Probably not mine though.