LABEL: Merge Records
CAT NO: MRG780LPC1
BARCODE: 0673855078007
Tracklisting:
SIDE A
1. City of the Dead
2. Endless Summer
3. On the Floor
4. Highly Suspect
5. Set It Aside
SIDE B
1. This Night
2. Wild Loneliness
3. Refracting
4. Connection
5. If You’re Not Dark
SUPERCHUNK – Wild Loneliness
LP – Indies Exclusive Limited Edition Green Yellow Ghost Effect Vinyl
(Includes download code. Full-color cardboard inner sleeve with lyrics)
Like every record Superchunk has made over the last thirty-some years, Wild Loneliness is unskippably excellent and infectious. It’s a blend of stripped-down and lush, electric and acoustic, highs and lows, and I love it all. On Wild Loneliness you hear echoes of Come Pick Me Up, Here’s to Shutting Up, and Majesty Shredding. After the (ahem, completely justifiable) anger of What a Time to Be Alive, this new record is less about what we’ve lost in these harrowing times and more about what we have to be thankful for.
Because of COVID, Mac, Laura, Jim, and Jon each recorded separately, but a silver lining is that this method made other long-distance contributions possible, from R.E.M.’s Mike Mills, Sharon Van Etten, Franklin Bruno, and Tracyanne Campbell of Camera Obscura, among others. Some of the songs for the record were written before the pandemic hit, but others, like “Wild Loneliness,” were written from and about isolation.
See below for tracklisting…