This fall, Strange Wilds embark on a North American tour in support of their debut album, Subjective Concepts, now available worldwide from Sub Pop. The trek starts September 25th in Seattle, WA at Black Lodge and ends November 19th in Portland, OR at Bunk Bar.
Preceding the tour, Strange Wilds also have a few Pacific Northwest dates for you noise loving fans: August 9th at Seattle’s Chop Suey (8pm), another August 9th show at Old School Pizzeria in Olympia (midnight), and August 10th in Tacoma at New Frontier Lounge. Please find a complete list of tour dates below.
As you might suspect, Strange Wilds’ Subjective Concepts is available on CD / LP / DL at the Sub Pop Mega Mart, iTunes, Amazon and Bandcamp. All customers who order the LP version of Subjective Concepts from megamart.subpop.com and Bandcamp will receive the limited “Loser Edition” on white vinyl while supplies last. That’s right: everyone’s a Loser here. T-shirt also available, individually and also bundled with the new record.
Tour Dates Aug. 09 - Seattle, WA - Chop Suey ^ (EARLY) Aug. 09 - Olympia, WA - Old School Pizzeria # (LATE) Aug. 10 - Tacoma, WA - New Frontier Lounge Sep. 25 - Seattle, WA - Black Lodge Sep. 27 - Portland, OR - They Know Sep. 30 - Olympia, WA - TBA Oct. 01 - San Francisco, CA - Hemlock Oct. 02 - Los Angeles, CA - The Smell Oct. 03 - Tempe, AZ - Time Out Lounge Oct. 05 - Denver, CO - Rhinoceropolis Oct. 09 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle Oct. 11 - Detroit, MI - Marble Bar Oct. 12 - Cleveland, OH - Now That’s Class Oct.16 - Brooklyn, NY - Union Pool (Strange Victory Touring CMJ Party) Oct. 19 - Toronto, ON - Smiling Buddha Oct. 20 - Rochester, NY - Bug Jar Nov. 01 - Jacksonville, FL - Rain Dogs Nov. 04 - Austin, TX - Beerland Nov. 09 - Fullerton, CA - Continental Room Nov. 10 - El Centro, CA - Strangers Nov. 11 - Los Angeles, CA - All Star Lanes Nov. 13 - Oakland, CA - 1-2-3-4 Go Records Nov. 18 - Boise, ID - Neurolux Nov. 19 - Portland, OR - Bunk Bar
Strange Wilds’ ear-splitting debut album Subjective Concepts is now available on CD / LP / DL worldwide and can be yours today.
In celebration of today’s release, the band also presents an official video for “Pronoia,” the album’s lead single. Director David Hoejke and young shredders Strange Wilds will test the limits of your eyes, ears and speakers with this audiovisual assault (see FLOOD videp premiere July 24th). Strange Wilds have a few Pacific Northwest shows - see below - in support of Subjective Concepts (including one in their hometown of Olympia, WA) from July 24th through August 10th, including two Seattle record-release shows today, July 24th: an instore at Everyday Music (at 5pm) and a performance at Capitol Hill Block Party’s Barboza stage (at 7:30pm). Do yourself a favor if you’re a lucky Pacific Northwesterner and watch them crush it in person.
We also suggest purchasing the album Subjective Concepts from Sub Pop Mega Mart, iTunes, Amazon, Bandcamp or your friendly neighborhood record store. FYI - All customers who order the LP version of Subjective Concepts from Mega Mart and Bandcamp will receive the limited “Loser Edition” on white vinyl, with a limited-edition poster, while supplies last. (There’s also a new T-shirt design available individually or as part of a bundle with the record. Yeah, we thought you’d like that.)
It Seems ‘They’ Have Something To Say About Strange Wilds’ Album Debut:
“The album is a wake-up call to rock above the hazy summer daze, but then, just like that, it’s gone—a 35-minute sing-along tornado demanding to be played again immediately.” - FLOOD
“Pronoia is the opposite of paranoia, essentially the happy delusion that there is a conspiracy that exists to help people. It’s also the name of the hellish four-minute blast of noise that’s the best song on this debut album by Seattle trio Strange Wilds. The follow-up to 2014’s four-track ‘Wet’ EP, Subjective Concepts sounds like it was raised on ‘Bleach’-era Nirvana and aligns the band with their Washington peers Milk Music and Naomi Punk. They build a monumental wall of hardcore noise on ‘Egophillia’, before taking a wrecking ball to it and screaming wildly into the mess. Elsewhere, there are tight grooves on ‘Disdain’ and ‘Terrible’, and the guttural riffs on ‘Starved For’ offer plenty for bleeding gums to gnaw on.” -NME
“Touch And Go-style post rock with early grunge.” - The AV Club
“Northwestern American trio tap into grunge’s collective unconscious, channeling crushing riffs and ancestral memories of hardcore.” MOJO
“Loud, sneering, and heavy-set, Subjective Concepts could come wrapped in a rain-soaked plaid shirt.” - LOUD & QUIET
“Taut, virile hardcore punk with a seething intelligence… It’s an absolute gem.” - CLASH MUSIC
“An undeniably exciting listen.” - UNCUT
“While the barbed, razor-sharp riffs and tightrope bass thuds ofBleach largely inform the scrappy nature of key tracks like caustic opener “Pronoia” and the pensive “Oneirophobe,” there is an influential undercurrent of the signature sounds of their own city back in the day as well. Shades of K Records classics from Beat Happening and Some Velvet Sidewalk additionally factor into the more melodic elements of Subjective Concepts, particularly within the structures of college radio-ready songs like “Don’t Have To” and “Lose and Found.” - PASTE
“They are a powerful outfit, and Subjective Concepts is cohesive and fierce.” - Pitchfork
“Toggles between a coiled-snake groove and the kind of full scream-along ferocity that makes you want to thrash around in a small, dark room with a bunch of sweaty strangers. This is noisy, heavy, grimy music, and it’s great.” [“Pronoia”] - Stereogum
“A sludged-out mess of hardcore that slam dances with the Seattle label’s past and it wouldn’t be surprising at all to see them on a tour run that’s stacked with Mogwai, METZ, or Pissed Jeans” [“Pronoia”] - BLARE
“‘Starved For’ sounds exactly like what you’d want to be listening to if you lived inside of a Tony Hawk Pro Skater game.” - Noisey
Tour Dates Jul. 24 - Seattle, WA - Everyday Music in-store (5pm) Jul. 24 - Seattle, WA - Capitol Hill Block Party (7:30pm) Aug. 09 - Seattle, WA - Chop Suey ^ (EARLY) Aug. 09 - Olympia, WA - Old School Pizzeria # (LATE) Aug. 10 - Tacoma, WA - New Frontier Lounge
The wise and kind folks at the AV Club are now streaming the full album by Northwest rippers Strange Wilds here. Enrich your life by giving the album a listen, then preorder it at the Sub Pop Megamart. And, for those of you lucky enough to be in the great Northwest this Friday, go see them play a free, all-ages in-store at Seattle’s Everyday Music, then catch them again at Capitol Hill Block Party. Trust us, it will be worth both your time and your money.
We are happy to release Strange Wilds’ “Starved For,” the ferocious new single from Subjective Concepts, their full-length debut.
Noisey offers this on the band: “Strange Wilds is a punk trio
out of Olympia, WA that throw down powerchords suited for any damn
occasion you could need. On their upcoming record Subjective Concepts...the
band delivers songs displaying flourishes of the best parts of the
Northwest’s storied punk history without using nostalgia as a crutch.
Their new track “Starved For” sounds exactly like what you’d want to be
listening to if you lived inside of a Tony Hawk Pro Skater game. It’s
exactly what you’d expect from a band on Sub Pop, heavy riffs that can
still guile any “normal” person into falling in love with the band’s
music. In a hair under three minutes the trio manages to create a broad
soundscape that covers way more ground than you’d expect on paper (see track premiere June 16th)”.
Strange Wilds have a few scheduled live dates to share at this time:
June 26th in Seattle, WA at Black Lodge; July 18th in Olympia, WA at Old
School Pizza; and July 24th in Seattle at Capitol Hill Block Party.
Additional tour dates will be announced soon.
Subjective Concepts will be available on CD/LP/DL worldwide on
Friday July 24th from Sub Pop. The album, featuring the highlights
“Pronoia,” “Starved For,” “Disdain,” and “Egophillia,” was produced by
the band at Robert Lang Studios, mixed by Jackson Long at Hear Me
Shimmer, and mastered at RFI, all located in Seattle, Washington. Subjective Concepts follows Strange Wilds’ Wet EP on Inimical Records (2014), and the “Standing” 7” single (2015), also available now from Sub Pop.
Preorders for Strange Wilds’ Subjective Concepts are now available from Sub Pop’s Mega Mart, Amazon, and iTunesand Bandcamp. All customers who pre-order the LP version of Subjective Concepts
from megamart.subpop.com will receive the limited Loser Edition on
white vinyl, with a limited-edition poster. There will also be a new
T-shirt design available individually and as part of a bundle with the
new record.
About Strange Wilds:
Strange Wilds is a musical power-trio from Olympia, Washington.
There are three members: Allen, who plays drums; Sean, who plays bass;
and Steven, who sings and plays the guitar. There is also a freight
train, several buzzsaws, a banshee, and some heavy, heavy Pacific
doom-and-gloom up in the mix.
The group formed in 2012, when Steven met Sean while Sean’s band from
Boise was playing a gig in a house where Steven lived. They became
friends, and several months later Steven called Sean, who had just
relocated to Olympia for college, to form the band. They were called
Wet, and gigged around the West Coast as a four-piece. Allen was added
as a full-time member in 2014 after a line-up change, and the band
changed its name to Strange Wilds to release a 4-song EP and tour
immediately. Sub Pop came calling, and signed the band last fall. The
band is now set to release its full-length debut, Subjective Concepts, this summer.
Strange Wilds slays with the hellish fury of the Northwest hardcore scene’s best, the heavenly scuzz of a Bleach-era
Nirvana, and the purgatorial punishment of Touch & Go post-rock
meets Devo’s de-evolution machine. The 11 songs here bleed with the
hybrid DNA of Seattle’s past and future, disparate scenes fused together
with sneering menace and intelligent fury in equal shares (read more at
Sub Pop).
What People Are Saying About Strange Wilds:
“Toggles between a coiled-snake groove and the kind of full scream-along
ferocity that makes you want to thrash around in a small, dark room
with a bunch of sweaty strangers. This is noisy, heavy, grimy music, and
it’s great.” [“Pronoia”] - Stereogum
“A sludged-out mess of hardcore that slam dances with the Seattle
label’s past and it wouldn’t be surprising at all to see them on a tour
run that’s stacked with Mogwai, METZ, or Pissed Jeans” [“Pronoia”] - BLARE
Tour Dates
Jun. 26 - Seattle, WA - The Black Lodge
Jul. 18 - Olympia, WA - Old School Pizza
Jul. 24 - Seattle, WA - Capitol Hill Block Party
Sub Pop will release Subjective Concepts, the full-length debut by StrangeWilds, on CD/LP/DL worldwide on Friday July 24th. The album, featuring the highlights “Pronoia,” “Disdain,” and “Egophillia,” was
recorded & produced by the band and Jackson Long at Robert Lang
Studios, mixed by Long at Hear Me Shimmer, and mastered at RFI, all
located in Seattle, Washington. Subjective Concepts follows the band’s Wet EP on Inimical Records (2014), and “Standing” 7” single (2015), also available now from Sub Pop.
Stereogum premiered Subjective Concepts lead single “Pronoia,” and had this to say: “First
single “Pronoia” toggles between a coiled-snake groove and the kind of
full scream-along ferocity that makes you want to thrash around in a
small, dark room with a bunch of sweaty strangers. This is noisy, heavy,
grimy music, and it’s great(see April 28th premiere).”
Preorders for StrangeWilds’ Subjective Concepts are now available from Sub Pop Mega Mart, iTunes, Amazon and Bandcamp. All customers who pre-order the LP version of Subjective Concepts from megamart.subpop.com will
receive the limited “Loser Edition” on white vinyl, with a
limited-edition poster. There will also be a new T-shirt design
available individually and as part of a bundle with the new record.
About StrangeWilds: StrangeWilds is a musical power-trio from Olympia, Washington.
There are three members: Allen, who plays drums; Sean, who plays bass;
and Steven, who sings and plays the guitar. There is also a freight
train, several buzzsaws, a banshee, and some heavy, heavy Pacific
doom-and-gloom up in the mix.
The group formed in 2012, when Steven met Sean while Sean’s band from
Boise was playing a gig in a house where Steven lived. They became
friends, and several months later Steven called Sean, who had just
relocated to Olympia for college, to form the band. They were called
Wet, and gigged around the West Coast as a four-piece. Allen was added
as a full-time member in 2014 after a line-up change, and the band
changed its name to StrangeWilds
to release a 4-song EP and tour immediately. Sub Pop came calling, and
signed the band last fall. The band is now set to release its
full-length debut, Subjective Concepts, this summer.
StrangeWilds slays with the hellish fury of the Northwest hardcore scene’s best, the heavenly scuzz of a Bleach-era
Nirvana, and the purgatorial punishment of Touch & Go post-rock
meets Devo’s de-evolution machine. The 11 songs here bleed with the
hybrid DNA of Seattle’s past and future, disparate scenes fused together
with sneering menace and intelligent fury in equal shares(read more at Sub Pop).
StrangeWilds Subjective Concepts Tracklisting:
1. Pronoia
2. Starved For
3. Autothysis
4. Don’t Have To
5. Egophillia
6. Oneirophobe
7. Disdain
8. Pareidolia
9. Terrible
10. Lost and Found
11. Outercourse
Olympia, Washington’s Strange Wilds, will released their Sub Pop debut, the “Standing” + 2 single, January 19th in Europe and January 20th in North America. The
single is now available digitally and as a 7”, and you can now listen
to the entire single via Brooklyn Vegan!
Brooklyn Vegan says of “Standing”: ”StrangeWilds make bruising, guttural punk rock: heavy, loud and fast, with dark clouds looming.” The folks at Brooklyn Vegan aren’t esteemed for nothing; they know their stuff!
Preorders for StrangeWilds “Standing” +2 are available now through the Sub Pop Mega Mart.
Learn more about the relatively new Sub Pop band:
StrangeWilds
formed in Olympia, WA in 2012. The band grew out of the fertile
Pacific-Northwest punk scene, with members from Negative Press, Outlook,
Wreck, and a bunch of other punk/hardcore bands of the last few years.
Sometime in 2014, the band settled into the classic, economical,
power-trio configuration of bass, drums, a single guitar, and vocals,
and recorded “Standing,” their second release (their first being the
four-song “Wet” 7” on Inimical Records).
