059: Wild Pink - The Fences of Stonehenge
Quickly skipping past any potential jokes given recent news from the UK, 'The Fences of Stonehenge' is, in fact, the brand new single from New York band Wild Pink, the collective led by John Ross who we've been writing about on GFP since their 4 Songs EP, released back in 2016.
Since that time, the band have released a handful of brilliant records, alongside Ross' personal life being thrown into turmoil with a cancer diagnosis that he chronicled on previous LP ILYSM.
The new album is called Dulling The Horns, a ten-track collection that will be released in October via the excellent Fire Talk label (Strange Ranger, Cola, Why Bonnie), and one that reinvents the band's totemic glistening sound with something far more grainy and untethered.
'The Fences of Stonehenge' is indicative of this shift, and is indeed said to be the "mission statement" of the new record. Just two-and-a-half minutes in length it's a restless affair, Ross' voice fighting for the limelight alongside scrappy guitars and deliberately raw production. It's unbalanced and all the more rewarding for it, twisting a well-trodden signature sound into bold and exciting new shapes.
Where Wild Pink go from here is anyone's guess. Recorded live in a room with engineer Justin Pizzoferrato, the full album sits in the future like a silhouette you can't make any sense of - and it's that sense of trepidation that makes the whole thing such a hearty, invigorating breath of fresh air. “I didn’t want to clean up anymore,” Ross says of the band's new chapter. “In doing so we’ve arrived at a new place.”
So here they are.
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