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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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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 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 1, 2022Overall, this is a stunner. Kudos to Superchunk for making another terrific record in the middle of a global pandemic.
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Feb 23, 2022There are moments on Superchunk's inspired and inspiring Wild Loneliness where ideas of isolation and connection are pondered and addressed but any despondency is met with righteous hope and a roaring conviction that all is not lost, and goddamn do we need records like these right now.
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MojoFeb 22, 2022For all Wild Loneliness's concerns about our ailing world, it's unmistakably a tonic. It's also a life-affirming thank-you note for what we have left. [Apr 2022, p.87]
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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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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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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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Rolling StoneMar 10, 2022The result is an engrossing album full of stock-taking warmth. [Mar 2022, p.71]
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Classic Rock MagazineMar 7, 2022Full of infectious, summery pop melodies, acoustic guitars and abrasion. [Apr 2022, p.77]
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Feb 25, 2022While McCaughn’s lyrics grapple with the realities of 2020 and 2021, Superchunk’s songs are upbeat and anthemic.
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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]