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Jul 21, 2015With their excellent full-length debut, this savage young trio offers a stiff reminder of those bygone halcyon days when Chad Channing drummed for Nirvana instead of Dave Grohl.
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Aug 6, 2015Unhealthy though it may be, the pain expressed certainly produced a great debut.
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Jul 29, 2015They have plenty to make them stand out from the crowd. The legacy of Seattle grunge is alive and well and being extended in the hands of Strange Wilds.
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Jul 24, 2015It's not unfair to say Strange Wilds are a bit derivative, but they also do right by their influences, and they unleash a cranked-up onslaught that's tight and ferocious, with a judicious use of dynamics and an effective application of the traditional cheap Fender guitar run through the right effects boxes.
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Jul 24, 2015This is a bruising, effective set, whatever the year may be, and one that really could only have come from one place.
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Jul 22, 2015Their Northwest hardcore sound may be derivative, but it represents the tendencies of its origins with convincing force, as their unrefined grunge tones and twangs almost make Subjective Concepts feel like an overlooked album from back in the day.
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Jul 21, 2015They build a monumental wall of hardcore noise on 'Egophillia', before taking a wrecking ball to it and screaming wildly into the mess. Elsewhere, there are tight grooves on ‘Disdain’ and ‘Terrible’, and the guttural riffs on 'Starved For’ offer plenty for bleeding gums to gnaw on.
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Jul 22, 2015They are a powerful outfit, and Subjective Concepts is cohesive and fierce.
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Q MagazineJul 30, 2015Not the new sound of now, perhaps, but they play with enough fury to make the ancestors proud. [Sep 2015, p.117]
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Jul 29, 2015What salvages the record from being an exercise in nostalgia, are the moments where Strange Wilds drop the mid-tempo grungy gloom for moments of pure hardcore bliss.
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Jul 23, 2015It isn’t bad, but it rarely moves beyond pastiche.
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MojoJul 21, 2015Crushing riffs and ancestral memories of hardcore. [Aug 2015, p.98]
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UncutJul 21, 2015There's not much here that departs from the blueprint Cobain establishment. Still, though, it's an undeniably exciting listen. [Aug 2015, p.80]