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With their debut album, The Lonely Wild set up camp somewhere between Bruce Springsteen and Ennio Morricone, occupying that rarely-visited place where mariachi horns, four-on-the-floor percussion, vocal harmonies and rafter-reaching rock & roll all intersect. It’s an anthemic sound — equal parts western, southern and something not quite defined by geographic adjectives — and it’s bottled into the twelve songs that comprise The Sun As It Comes, an anthemic album recorded in six days.
“The Sun As It Comes is a collection of songs written over the course of a couple years,” says frontman Andrew Carroll. “We tracked most of the record live to try to capture the energy that we put out on stage. Though we live in the age of the ‘single,’ we felt compelled to make a cohesive body of work. There are distinct lyrical and musical themes that run throughout the album, much of it centered around the social unrest that followed the recent economic recession.”
The Sun As It Comes is due April 2 on Ursa Major Recordings.
The Lonely Wild Tour Dates:
Feb 23 – Central – Santa Monica, CA
Mar 8 – Hard Rock Café – Phoenix, AZ
Mar 11 – SXSW – Austin, TX
Mar 18 – Mojo’s – Columbia, MO
Mar 19 – Lindberg’s – Springfield, MO
Mar 29 – The Satellite – Los Angeles, CA **Album Release Show**
Mar 30 – Constellation Room – Santa Ana, CA
Apr. 15 – Bottom of the Hill – San Francisco, CA
Apr. 17 – Mississippi Studios – Portland, OR
Apr. 18 – Sunset Tavern – Seattle, WA
May 1 – Stickyz – Little Rock, AR
May 2 – The Basement – Nashville, TN
May 3 – Schubas – Chicago, IL
May 4 – Rozz Tox – Rock Island, IL
May 7 – Frequency – Madison, WI
May 8 – 7th Street Entry – Minneapolis, MN
May 10 – Musica – Akron, OH
May 13 – MOTR – Cincinnati, OH
May 14 – Smiling Moose – Pittsburgh, PA
May 15 – Milkboy – Philadelphia, PA
May 16 – Mercury Lounge – New York, NY
May 17 – Union Hall – Brooklyn, NY
More Dates TBA
