Welsh Indie / Shoegaze band Wylderness to release new 'Safe Mode' EP on 2nd June & New Single 'What Happens To The Rain' Out 29th May
Artist: 'Wylderness'
EP Title: 'Safe Mode'
Single Title: 'What Happens To The Rain'
EP Release Date: 2nd June
Single Release Date: 29th May
Label: Independent
Location: Cardiff, Wales
Format: Digital Single
Photo Credit: Kirsten McTernan
Socials: @Wyldrnss / @Wylderness_Band @Beastpruk
Genre: Shoegaze / Dreampop
Cardiff Indie / Shogaze band 'Wylderness' have announced that a brand new single 'What Happens To The Rain' will be released digitally on the 29th May, the last single taken from their anticipated EP 'Safe Mode' which will be released on the 2nd June.
The concept for this EP is reimagining the software and tech boom of the 90s. But instead of being centred on the west coast of America, it takes place in the south coast of Wales.
About 'What Happens To The Rain' single
This is the closer to the EP and really it’s another two songs in one. The title could be a question or a statement. The first half has a Real Estate vibe and the second half goes in a more trippy Brian Jonestown direction.
It’s a song about going back to where you grew up, retracing memories and finding that they don’t quite add up to how you remember them (“Seeing faces you had forgotten / Crying for no-one / Recollections made of concrete / Fade in the sun”).
About 'Wylderness'
Woozy sun-drenched pop wrapped in a wall of stabbing fuzzy guitars and mesmerising shoegaze, echoing the sounds of Ride, DIIV, Sonic Youth and Yo La Tengo. Wylderness’ eponymous debut album, released in 2018, was championed by SteveLamacq (BBC 6 Music), Huw Stephens (BBC Radio 1) and was part of Radio 1’s Best of BBC Music Introducing.
It garnered critical acclaim from Clash, DIY and Drowned inSound, with the song On a Dais being featured on the US version of the TV show Shameless.
Wylderness have played shows for Huw Stephens, Sonic Cathedral, Swn Festival and support with Acid Mothers Temple.
The Cardiff band’s second album, Big Plans for a Blue World(2022), was recorded with an expanded line up and featured added layers of vintage synths and clarinet. It placed no.28 in Far Out Magazine’s Best Albums of 2022 and charted in the North American College & Community Radio Chart.
2025 will see the release of their much anticipated new Safe Mode EP recorded with producers Andrew Sanders and long time collaborator Rory Attwell.
Wylderness are: Ian (guitars/vox), Jim (bass/guitars), Ben (drums/percussion), Dan(guitars/vox), and Harri (clarinet/keys)
Discover
Bandcamp - https://wylderness.bandcamp.com
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wylderness_band
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/wyldernessband
