{"id":10899,"date":"2020-02-22T05:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T05:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=10899"},"modified":"2020-02-21T19:14:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T19:14:14","slug":"wyldlife-announce-pre-sales-for-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=10899","title":{"rendered":"Wyldlife announce pre sales for ‘Year Of The Snake’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>New York Punk Rockin Power Poppers Wyldlife announce pre-sales for their brand new album ‘Year Of The Snake’ on Wicked Cool Records. Available on yin and yang black\/white vinyl. All pre orders get instant two track download.\u00a0\u00a0Bandcamp<\/a>\u00a0\/ Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n

Album pre-orders have launched along with a bold new single titled \u201cKiss And Tell\u201d.<\/p>\n

Pre-order \u2018Year of the Snake\u2019:<\/strong>\u00a0https:\/\/orcd.co\/yearofthesnake<\/a><\/p>\n

Of the new single, frontman Dave Feldman says, \u201cAfter listening to \u201cDefinitely Maybe\u201d for more times than we can count, Sam and I wanted to make a song that was tough and angry but still confident and cool. The lyric \u201cI\u2019d rather be ignored than be adored\u201d was a riff on another favorite Manchester band, the Stone Roses. Obviously we as a band want to be celebrated and have an impact on people\u2019s lives, but most times I just want to be left the fuck alone. WYLDLIFE tends to have a larger than life personality, but most people don\u2019t actually know anything about us. I\u2019ve said \u201cgood to see you\u201d to more people I don\u2019t know than I\u2019m comfortable with.\u201c<\/p>\n

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\u201cI feel like WYLDLIFE is kind of the biggest outlier band of our time,\u201d says Dave Feldman, lead singer of the fierce four-piece NYC Rock \u2019n\u2019 Roll machine that continues its stylishly anachronistic upending of Rock \u2019n\u2019 Roll expectations with their fourth album and boldest artistic statement yet, Year Of The Snake, out April 17 on Wicked Cool Records.<\/p>\n

Stuffed with catchy riffs and choruses, charmingly specific lyrics and a palpable love of \u201970s punk, glam and power pop, Year Of The Snake is the long-anticipated follow-up to WYLDLIFE\u2019s Wicked Cool debut, Out On Your Block. That 2017 release, featuring their breakthrough hit \u201cContraband,\u201d made the upper half of the CMJ and NACC college radio charts and was hailed by Thrasher as \u201cRock \u2019n\u2019 Roll that makes your heart beat faster and your fists scream.\u201d<\/p>\n

All 11 songs on the retro-fueled new album were co-written by Feldman with guitarist Sam Allen. The two are \u201cthe Mick and Keef of the band\u201d as bassist Spencer Alexander puts it. Dave and Sam have been friends since age 11 and have been writing songs together for nearly two decades.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of times, I\u2019ll have a melody in my head, usually with lyrics, and I\u2019ll just have to sing the thing out to Sam since I can\u2019t play guitar to save my life,\u201d says Dave. \u201cI\u2019ll be frantically trying to explain, \u2018It should sound like this Stooges song, but with this Oasis song for the drums and this bass line like The Rezillos or whatever. Sam will transform it into something that\u2019s close to what I meant but even better.\u201d<\/p>\n

The childhood friends have been augmented for some time now by Spencer on bass and Stevie Dios on drums. Dave sings their praises: \u201cStevie is like a self-flagellating workhorse. After every take he\u2019ll be like, \u2018I fucked that up, let\u2019s do it again,\u2019 when he’s the only one who heard anything. Spencer is super fucking relaxed pretty much about everything in life. He\u2019s a rocker, but he\u2019s even more of a roller.\u201d An in-demand illustrator and designer, Spencer is also the visual genius behind the album\u2019s striking art direction.<\/p>\n

The record and its title track drew naming inspiration from 1989, the year in which Dave, Sam and Spencer all were born, and the third most recent year of the snake according to the Chinese zodiac. \u201cWe\u2019ve always been crawling for glory, unwilling to compromise and are considered to be mesmerizing while simultaneously dangerous,\u201d Feldman offers, without a trace of venom.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThere may be listeners who think there\u2019s a bit more negative energy or anger on Year Of The Snake,\u201d says Feldman, \u201cbut there\u2019s always been a hard truth to our songs. Topics include paranoia, anxiety, bad relationships with others, bad relationships with self, hustling in every sense of the word\u2026but it\u2019s not all good news! I guess the overarching theme is: \u2018It\u2019s 2020. Life is obviously fucked, nothing matters whatsoever, let\u2019s party about it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The album kicks off with \u201cDeathbed,\u201d in which Dave laments about \u201cJoey and Bowie and little old me,\u201d referencing departed heroes Joey Ramone and David Bowie. He explains: \u201cDeath seems like the easiest, fastest way to make your mark, like a cheat code to notoriety. There\u2019s always been a fear in my head: \u2018Will people remember you? Will they remember WYLDLIFE?\u2019 I hope someday I die with a bit of certainty that the answer is \u2018yes.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

While packed with upbeat rockers in the classic three-minute WYLDLIFE mold, the album does find the band showing off some new tricks. The taut \u201cAutomatic,\u201d a song both inspired by The Jesus and Mary Chain and named after one of their albums, features harmony vocals by friend of the band Sasha Cibic, the first woman to guest on a WYLDLIFE song. Barrier-breaking album closer \u201cThe Falcon\u201d is an epic five-minute cocaine bender with ominous overtones, complete with tubular bells and perhaps Feldman\u2019s most intense vocal to date.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe track was recorded in December and it just so happened that there was a set of tubular bells on loan in the studio; we knew we had to use them and to be honest, it\u2019s my favorite part of the track. Upon completion Spencer pointed out that the Falcons happen to be Atlanta\u2019s NFL team. As it stands, this is the only time I feel like I\u2019ve ever been in the absolute right place in the absolute right time: fucked up soaking wet in a parking lot in Atlanta, Georgia.\u201d<\/p>\n

The blistering \u201cNeon Nightmare\u201d was the first Snake track to see the light of the day when released as a single in late 2019. It quickly achieved Coolest Song In The World honors on Little Steven\u2019s Underground Garage, heard on SiriusXM and internationally syndicated radio. \u201cKiss And Tell\u201d is the band\u2019s first single of 2020, with a typically madcap music video on the way. Both \u201cAutomatic\u201d and the irreverent French travelogue \u201cSacr\u00e9 Bleu\u201d are also slated for airplay.<\/p>\n

Recorded in late 2019 at Renegade Studios, NYC, home base of Wicked Cool head Stevie Van Zandt, the album was produced by Sam with Geoff Sanoff, the engineer known for his work with Bruce Springsteen, Fountains Of Wayne, Dashboard Confessional and others.<\/p>\n

The latest release in Wicked Cool Records\u2019 ongoing partnership with The Orchard as distributor, Year Of The Snake is poised to sustain the label\u2019s momentum on the heels of its 2019 Billboard Heatseekers Top 10 albums by Jesse Malin and The Dollyrots. Both Malin and The Dollyrots are releasing new music via the label in 2020, as are The Empty Hearts, Soraia and more.<\/p>\n

WYLDLIFE is:
\nDave Feldman \u2014 vocals
\nSam Allen \u2014 guitar
\nSpencer Alexander \u2014 bass
\nStevie Dios \u2014 drums<\/p>\n

To give a sample of what to expect check out the youtube clip of the single ‘Neon Nightmare’ that’s taken from the album<\/p>\n