Jack Tatum’s Wild Nothing is releasing its fourth album, Indigo, on August 31 via Captured Tracks. Today, Tatum’s shared the official video for recent single “Letting Go.” Directed by Nathaniel Axel and David MacNutt, the colorfully bizarre video is less explained and more described by the directors as, “Mourning, melodrama, psychedelic mushrooms, a bodybuilder, scarecrows, fetish rainwear, modernist architecture, catatonic schizophrenia, witchcraft, aquatherapy: Let It Go.” Indigo was recorded at LA’s Sunset Sound and was produced by Tatum and Jorge Elbrecht. It follows 2016’s Life of Pause. Below, watch the video and Wild Nothing’s most recent KEXP in-studio session from 2016.
“There’s so many kinds of music I’m interested in that I just never let into my own songwriting, so in a way with this record, it was kind just of like opening the curtains and letting stuff come in,” Jack Tatum of Wild Nothing says of Life of Pause. Continuing with his style of creating a new worl…
Ever since his debut single in 2009 for his longtime label Captured Tracks, Virginia musician Jack Tatum's Wild Nothing project has consistently unleashed some of this decade's finest expansive dream-pop and shoegaze music. Now based in Brooklyn, his new third album, Life Of Pause, is yet another K…
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