Wild Nothing - Gemini - Summer Holiday

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Wild Nothing is 21-year-old Blacksburg, Virginia songwriter Jack Tatum (aka Jack And The Whale aka a member of Facepaint). Yeah, another one man band. But no, not just another one man band. Instead of doing the fuzzy lo-fi thing, Tatum wraps his elastic voice in a dramatic dream-pop haze. (Or in a song like "Live In Dreams" you hear bedroom Marr and Moz.) In an interview he mentions the Cocteau Twins along with Shop Assistants, My Bloody Valentine, and, yes, the Smiths (plus the Radio Dept. and other Swedish pop-makers) as influences. To give you more of an idea he covers Kate Bush's "Cloudbusting." To give you even more of an idea...

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[dublev78]

Why are most indie music fans such pretentious snobs? Just enjoy this for what it is, good. No one elected you art-house hero. Fascist music listener: stop trying so hard to be different or you'll end up like everyone else.

[jesuzizinmybedroom]

wow one man band. good work mate!

[delphinia99]

"I'm not the kind that likes to tell you just what you want me to" - that's what I hear when the melody comes in at 0:12. That melody is like an allusion to Age of Consent.

[Frank Johnson]

reminds me of my first wank

[Benjamin Korbelak]

wheee!

[juicyphilip]

newkidsonmycock sent me here

[César Armando Medina]

After two years I still get excited every time the song starts.

[SuperZalex]

What is this eargasm?!?! X3

[libd84]

Kudos to anyone who heard the bass line and thought of Joy Division

[gamer00341]

it reminds me of beach fossil's "Shallow"

[gabrielesparzam]

sounds good thou. i dont think they hide, it just sounds cool.

its like saying to quit the reverb on this guitar, the delay, the effects pedal, it wouldn't sound the same