Wilderado

I found Wilderado on a random Spotify playlist last year and spent the better part of a month obsessed with their single, "You Don't Love Me". They grabbed me ballsies with a huge ass fucking screamable-in-my-car-alone chorus, and then hooked me further by releasing the same track all stripped down and acoustic. The songwriting felt compelling and intentionally anthemic without feeling disingenuous. It felt super fucking late 90s and that made me fucking happy.

Fast forward to meow, I get a new Wilderado single in the emails just meow and I pop the fucker in my imaginary tape deck and BOOM: late 90s indie rock makin' me feel all comf and like the world isn't burning to shit around me.

This dude's throat has that lilt that I can only install inside my brain into musicians who actually believe the words they're singing, and when dude starts describing seeing things a bit backwards, I'm fucking WITH it.

On their bandcamp page I was able to read the lyrics, and when I pair it with the email description of the song (being about a bear seeing nature for the first time after hibernating or something like that), I got to thinking about how I would totally love hibernating if it was pre-decided and mandatory that I wouldn't be woken up by my genitals. These things are always fucking waking me up. LET ME OUT TO DO MY BUSINESS. TAKE ME FOR A WALK. I'M GOING TO ITCH FOR NO REASON. PET ME. CHOKE ME. 

Right genital owners? RIGHT? GOSH!

One thing I'll give Wilderado is that their choruses are meant for singing along with before your first time through the song's even over, and that's some seriously apprecaited shit. All too often I hear music and it goes in one ear and out the other, and without that connection and reason to sing this shit to myself while on the shitter later, it never touches me where I need touching.

Wilderado touched me. Again. Like, touch touched me. Like all up inside me.

I can sure go for this fucking band to blow the fuck up so I can one day hear "You Don't Love Me" close out a set as this "Surefire" jam, is perf perf to start off the show yo.