Wild Nothing | Stereo 14 February

PCL Presents
Wild Nothing
Thursday, 14 February
Stereo, Glasgow
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Doors 7pm
14+ Only u16 Must be accompanied by an adult
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Tickets available via See Tickets or in Person in store at Tickets Scotland Wednesday 12th September at 10am
https://www.seetickets.com/event/wild-nothing/stereo/1261417
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Wild Nothing, Indigo

“Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We
created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique
about human beings.”–Ray Kurzweil Although civilization’s
transition into a cyborg world seems inevitable, there are
still those who recognize the beauty and power of a human
touch to complement the circumvention. Jack Tatum understands
this balance, and through a decade making music as Wild
Nothing he has learned to embrace both sides of that
dynamic—but perhaps never as distinctly as on Indigo, the
fourth Wild Nothing album. On one hand, it is a return to
the fresh, transcendent sweep of his debut, 2010’s Gemini, and
on the other, a culmination of heights reached, paths
traveled, and lessons learned while creating the follow-ups,
Nocturne and Life of Pause. Indigo finds Tatum at his most
efficient, calculated, and confident—resulting in an artful blend
of hi-fi humanity and technology that fires on all circuits
and synapses. Whereas Gemini was the sound of Tatum making
the album he imagined in his bedroom and 2012’s Nocturne was
the result of his first turn in a proper studio, followed by
2016’s Life of Pause, a multi-studio tinkering odyssey spanning
time and spaces, this 2018 maturation finds Tatum arriving at
total creative openness. “My entire 20’s have been spent on
this project, and in that sense you inherently find the
limitations in what you make,” Tatum says. “With the last
record I was trying to stretch out as far as I could, but
with Indigo I’ve created something that has homed in on its
own identity. My life has become less about chasing these
creative bursts and more about learning to channel my
creativity.”Every note, every sound, every breath on a Wild
Nothing release is intentional, and Tatum admits to exhausting
every possibility in his quest for perfection—an arc familiar
to all artists. Like the novelist who admits to gratuitousness
in their early works, Tatum speaks to learning concision.
“I’ve been a musician since age 10,” he says. “It’s always
been fun for me, and there is always going to be a part of
making music that feels like a puzzle: how do I put these
pieces together to create something?”To make Indigo, Tatum
confronted the Man vs. Machine dichotomy by seizing on the
surrounding synergy. In his studio, he would write pieces of
songs on guitars, with keyboards, “in the box” with plug-ins
and programs—whatever held his interest on any given day.
Sticking to his routine, he built a series of highly detailed
demos, intending to record the final package swiftly with a
live band in a studio and—bucking against the trend of the
rougher sound of Wild Nothing’s peers—in a clear, bright,
1980’s-inspired fidelity. “I’ve finally accomplished a hi-fi
sounding record,” Tatum reflects.