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- Summary: The 12th full-length release for North Carolina indie rock band Superchunk features contributions from such artists as Tracyanne Campbell of Camera Obscura, R.E.M.'s Mike Mills, Owen Pallett, Andy Stack of Wye Oak, Sharon Van Etten, Norman Blake and Raymond McGinley of Teenage Fanclub.
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- Record Label: Merge
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Rock
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Feb 22, 2022The fundamental stye of this iconic four-piece has never congealed. You never get the sense the band is trying to recreate its past records. Instead, it’s looking to insert little changes and musical tics, ways to find something new in the long-running sound that’s come before, without losing the Northern Star of its genre-defining style. It’s a wild realization.
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Feb 22, 2022Wild Loneliness is the fourth and best album Superchunk have recorded since returning to active service in 2010, and even stacks up next to classics from earlier in their career such as Here’s Where The Strings Come In or No Pocky For Kitty.
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Feb 22, 2022The result of this envelope-pushing is one of their most nuanced and emotionally engaging albums in years, arriving at a different kind of immediacy than can be achieved with loud guitars and angsty hooks.
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Mar 2, 2022Wild Loneliness is a whole lot different than What A Time To Be Alive musically, but spiritually it is a very worthy successor and up there with the best Superchunk has ever done.
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Mar 22, 2022Wild Loneliness is the perfect album for this moment, in which darkness isn’t denied but is repudiated to within an inch of its life.
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Mar 1, 2022Wild Loneliness is the natural endpoint of this long interrogation—the product of a band whose confidence in their own reason for being feels like a beacon.
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UncutFeb 23, 2022The follow-up, recorded in isolation during lockdown, has a mellower, be-thankful-for-what-we've-got vibe. [Apr 2022, p.35]
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Jun 14, 2022
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