Andy Shauf is “a gifted singer-songwriter. More than that, a gifted storyteller” (NPR Music). Today, he announces Wilds, a surprise new album out this Friday, September 24th (digitally)/November 19th (physically) via ANTI-, that offers a peek into Shauf’s creative process and how the multi-instrumentalist first begins building his songs into more ornately arranged final products. Additionally, he presents a new song, “Jaywalker.” Wilds is a collection of nine songs culled from around fifty tracks recorded by Shauf during the writing of his widely lauded last album, 2020’s The Neon Skyline.
Ultimately Wilds is not only another spin on the barstool at the Skyline—this time a bit wiser, with a little more clarity—but a standalone chapter in Shauf’s own artistic narrative. The organic nature of the songs make the stories they tell feel truer to life as it’s experienced in the moment rather than via carefully edited words on a page or through the golden, unreliable haze of memory.
