New band of the day – No 730: Wild Nothing

This tortured boy wonder creates ingeniously sad sounds full of the wan melodies of dream pop. It's shoegaze on a shoestringHometown: Blacksburg, Virginia.The lineup: Jack Tatum (vocals, instruments).The background: Girls who coo over Nutrasweet electro and boys murmuring wanly over sad, hazy guitars – these are a few of our favourite things. Yesterday we heard an example of the former, and today we get lashings of the latter. Over the last few years we've been looking for a replacement, ...

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