That sonic quality is a fitting complement to the albumвЂ™s lyrics, which see Ross caught in the bramble between his past and his present feeling suffocated by the repetition of life while simultaneously gazing at the stars above and marveling at the unquantifiable vastness of it all. On A Billion Little Lights, there are little details like speckles of auto-tune, flashing synths, and even trip-hop-esque drum loops that subtly yet effectively rebuff the notion that Wild PinkвЂ™s music yearns for a bygone era: the album sounds at once timeless and unmistakably modern. The band have never sounded dated or nostalgic, but the lingering twinge of Americana in their sound has always given their songs a familiar, classicist resonance. On past records, RossвЂ™s breathy delivery rarely raised above a hushed murmur, but here he sings with a melodic confidence that makes songs like вЂњPacific CityвЂќ, вЂњDie OutsideвЂќ, and вЂњThe Shining But TropicalвЂќ some of the catchiest, most anthemic cuts in the Wild Pink catalog. In addition to the instrumentation, Julia Steiner of the Chicago band Ratboys provides beautiful harmonies throughout the record, her soft voice recalling the friendly glow of a porch light when it switches on behind RossвЂ™s dusky coo. The ten songs on A Billion Little Lights are adorned with fiddles, violins, wurlitzers, saxophones, accordions, pedal steel guitars, and a variety of richly textured synths and keyboards. But unlike previous Wild Pink albums, Ross enlisted a deep bench of session musicians and friends to perform a litany of additional instruments, finally granting RossвЂ™s musical visions the space and sonic resources they needed to achieve their finest forms. Like all Wild Pink records, the songs were entirely written and arranged by Ross, who shaped them into high-quality demos over the course of a year in his new home in New YorkвЂ™s Hudson Valley. The record was produced, mixed, and co-engineered by producer David Greenbaum, whoвЂ™s worked with the likes of Beck, U2, Cage The Elephant, and Jenny Lewis. So for A Billion Little Lights, they actually made that leap. The album received glowing praise from Pitchfork (a score of 8.1), Billboard, NPR, Stereogum, and Uproxx, the latter deeming them вЂњone of indieвЂ™s best emerging bands.вЂќД®ven though Wild Pink were operating within the relatively modest world of contemporary indie-rock, critics likened them to the types of revered rock auteurs who rack up Grammy nominations. It was a sophisticated showing for a bandвЂ™s first album, but it was the striking maturation of Yolk In The Fur that established Wild PinkвЂ™s unique sound: a glistening variety of pastoral indie-rock akin to The War On Drugs, Death Cab For Cutie, and Kurt Vile, but informed by classic American rock poets like Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty. Brownell and drummer Dan Keegan, formed in New York City in 2015 and put out a handful of EPвЂ™s before releasing their critically acclaimed self-titled debut in 2017. The band, which is rounded out by bassist T.C. The record is a two-pronged triumph: an extraordinary reflection on the human condition presented through the sharpest, grandest, and most captivating songs Wild Pink have ever composed. On Wild PinkвЂ™s third album and first for Royal Mountain Records, A Billion Little Lights, Ross explores that dichotomy of finally achieving emotional security-of accepting the love and peace he deprived himself of in his twenties-while also feeling existentially smaller and more directionless than ever before.

Wild PinkвЂ™s last album, 2018вЂ™s Yolk In The Fur, concluded with a song about the strange sense of relief that comes with вЂњletting go of youth.вЂќ Frontman John Ross, then in his early thirties, was singing from a place of newfound comfort and wisdom, but it ended with a repetition of the line, вЂњI donвЂ™t know what happens next.вЂќ The song, titled вЂњAll Some FrenchmanвЂ™s JokeвЂќ, is a beautifully concise rendering of a universal milestone: leveling up from the wide-eyed naivety and self-destructive routines of our youth, only to realize that weвЂ™re as unprepared for the future as we were for the past.

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