Album Review: The Lonely Wild, The Sun As It Comes

 

Los Angeles’ The Lonely Wild released their first full-length album The Sun As It Comes earlier this week. The Lonely Wild, made up of singer Andrew Carroll, Guitarist Andrew Schneider, multi-instrumentalist Ryan Ross, percussionist Dave Farina and the vocal harmonies of Jessi Williams, released their first full-length album this week after nearly three years together as a band.

The music of The Lonely Wild must only be described as inspired. They are so young, so fresh with innovating expansive tracks and rich instrumentation. The male-female vocal dichotomy has put The Lonely Wild under the category of best new bands to watch for. The thematic of the album is strikingly simplistic. Simple is not to mean plain, but rather, authentic. Full and uncomplicated in influences, in this day it’s often hard to find the single strand of influence in a bands sound, but not in The Sun As It Comes and not in what The Lonely Wild are doing.  This band is raw and reaching a sound that many have tried but have yet to execute so well.

The Sun As It Comes opening track is as epic as their live performance. As if by magic, The Lonely Wild has captured the same energy they bring to a live performance in the first two minutes. Quickly the catalog moves into the haunting ballad “Everything You Need,” while the male-female harmonies bellow their love language, “I will be your heart if you will be mine,” in repeating refrains.

 “Who’s Calling,” whispers new light into the album. An amenable splendor feeds into the blithe melodies canopying The Sun As It Comes. There is a spark that defines this two-minute track as it acts almost more as a transition into “Closer Than The Needle” than an individual track. Nevertheless, it is a beautiful and necessary part of the gingerly crafted freshman debut.

As “Closer Than The Needle” relaxes the pace of the album, you are consumed in the in the suggestively moaning lyrics, “hold me closer than the needle, fill the emptiness I feel.” It is these highly consuming emotions that make The Sun As It Comes an authentic piece of art. Closing track “Over The Hill” is a vivid portrait of ambition in longing. It would appear that these very ideals line make up the will of this young and fruitful band. We only expect luscious sonorous goodness from this five piece in the future.

 

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