Wildernesses announce debut album ‘Growth’
WILDERNESSES have announced their debut album!
The London-based alt-rock quartet will release Growth on March 27th via Floodlit Recordings. Rooted in modern folk storytelling and shaped by lived experience, the band’s music inhabits the space between shoegaze glow, post-rock scale and intimate, emotionally led songwriting.
Speaking about the debut album, vocalist Phillip Morris says, “Growth is the result of over two years of writing, refining and learning together as a band. The title reflects both life’s way of shaping us and our own journey as a group, with a playful nod to my obsession with houseplants, the cover photo of them in my bath tied the themes of growth, texture and everyday life together. We’d never met before this project and now we’re close friends, having navigated highs, lows and the intense process of making a record that truly captures what we intended. Recorded with Joe Clayton at NO Studio in Manchester, the sessions were incredible; his calm, thoughtful approach helped shape the album’s sound and feel. Thematically, Growth aims to be real and emotive, joyful and morose all at once. It’s a huge milestone for us, and we can’t wait for people to hear it, feel the vinyl in their hands and connect with the stories in the tracks.”
Alongside the announcement, the band have shared a new single, Maintenance. The track arrives with a striking video shot by Joey Aitchison at the Cooperage, Brick Lane, London, featuring the band performing behind oversized handmade collage masks designed by vocalist Phillip Morris.
Speaking about the new song, Morris shares, “Maintenance lives in the small, repetitive habits of day-to-day life – the odd things you do to feel okay. Lyrically it’s tongue-in-cheek and self-aware and that unease bled into the artwork and video with these collage masks and ‘eyeless’ faces mirroring the song’s warped perspective.”
Watch the official music video for Maintenance here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:
Track List:
- Sleepless
- Happy Hollow
- [dread.]
- English Darkness
- Terrible Bloom
- Maintenance
- Cassino
- Four Hour Drive
- Summertime, 1917
And that’s not all from WILDERNESSES! To support the release of their debut album, the band will tour across the UK this March.
Tour dates are as follows:
Mar 18 – Hull @ Divehu5
Mar 19 – Leeds @ Opporto
Mar 20 – Nottingham @ JT Soar
Mar 21 – Manchester @ Old Pint Pot
Mar 22 – Birmingham @ Dead Wax
Mar 24 – Bristol @ Exchange
Mar 25 – Cardiff @ Fuel
Mar 26 – Brighton @ Rossi
Mar 27 – London @ Folklore
Growth is set for release on March 27th via Floodlit Recordings. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
For more information on WILDERNESSES like their official page on Facebook.
