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Wild Nothing

Gemini

Debut album of 80s-inspired guitar pop from Virginia one-man act Jack Tatum

ADM rating[?]

7.6

Label
Captured Tracks
UK Release date
25/05/2010
  1. 9.0 |   Culture Deluxe

    Wild Nothing/Jack Tatum appear to borrow as much from Pains of Being Pure at Heart’s debut as they do Technique era New Order and a young Johnny Marr
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  2. 9.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    This is a beautifully produced piece of heart stealing song writing
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  3. 8.3 |   Beats Per Minute

    The album is chock full of the jangly guitar, under-stated bass, and unabashed whingeing that cemented its contemporaries into the sleeve-worn hearts of adolescent high-school drop-outs only decades ago
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  4. 8.2 |   Pitchfork

    Tatum carves a tunnel from Ibiza's beaches to Manchester's rain-soaked fairgrounds, and in the process, captures a lot of what is exciting about underground music's current classic indie-pop fixation
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  5. 8.0 |   Under The Radar

    If you can imagine a loitering scene of scattered cassettes, records and a shitty amp surrounded by stale poster plastered walls and a 4-track hiss, then you may be able to conjure the airy new wave aesthetic that Wild Nothing is dripping in
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  6. 8.0 |   Bowlegs

    Jack Tatum seems to have staked his claim for one of the albums of the summer; Bowlegs for one will enjoy basking in its ambient guitar gliding beauty for a long while yet
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  7. 8.0 |   BBC

    Jack Tatum has an uncanny ability to transform bedroom-born lo-fi indie into lusciously textured examinations of the human condition that pluck at the heartstrings and tug at the tear ducts
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  8. 8.0 |   The Irish Times

    Anyone can do nostalgia or homage; the trick is bringing it back to life as an expression of your own personal feelings and dreams. Only an excellent songwriter such as Tatum can make that happen
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  9. 8.0 |   Prefix

    Unlike fellow '80s-indie-pop necrophiliacs the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Tatum buries his strong hooks under layers of hazy reverb
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  10. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    While he could’ve taken the introspective DIY route effectively, Tatum comes up with a basement-rock effort that blows up what’s in his head into colorful soundscapes that are more expansive than the suburban scenes that his songs are about
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  11. 7.0 |   Clash

    The album really needs to be appreciated as a whole, rather than cut down into separate chunks. A beautiful document, propelled yet weighed down by melancholy
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  12. 7.0 |   Rave Magazine

    Stylistically a mix of The Smiths, Cocteau Twins and New Order, the youngster’s ditties for the most part contain hummable melodies
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  13. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    A mostly very good example of a sound that takes the best bits of '80s indie and somehow recreates that feeling you get on those long summer nights, where happiness is tinged with the fact that you know it won't last
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  14. 5.0 |   No Ripcord

    An indisputably average debut that is far too contrived to place it among the elite indie-pop contemporaries. The melodies are often flat, with arrangements that serve as supplementary renditions of more memorable eighties acts
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