Wild Nothing - Gemini

Wild Nothing - Gemini
Release Date: March 25th 2010
Label: Captured Tracks

1.  Live in Dreams
2.  Summer Holiday
3.  Drifter
4.  Pessimist
5.  O, Lilac
6.  Bored Games
7.  Confirmation
8.  My Angel Lonely
9.  The Witching Hour
10. Chinatown
11. Our Composition Book
12. Gemini


Here is the debut from Jack Tatum aka Wild Nothing. This blissed out, shoegaze, US Indie Pop record has come out just in time for summer and will leave you in awe of the mastery of it. Wild Nothing's first track was a memorable cover of Kate Bush's 'Cloudbusting'. He managed to take a forgotten 80s bubblegam track and turn it into a dreamy massage of soothing heartbreak. 


Gemini is an album that is as crushingly beautiful as it is inspiring. The trasnsparrent guitars are so washed out that they are barely audible, and they conjur up images of blurred neon lights in the rain.  Gemini starts of with 'Live in Dreams' which acts as the front of house; welcoming you in, and chances are you will find it hard to resist as Jack tells us that "our lips won't last forever". This song and the rest of the album are bursting at the seams with hovering, gorgeous sound effects. Drifter is another song that takes you off to somewhere than can only exist in your dreams, conjurring up heavenly paradise like sounds. Second to last on the album comes the song ‘Our Composition Book’, which is a glamorous, picture-perfect pop song complete with shimmering sounds and some excellent guitar playing by guess who...Jack Tatum himself.

"I've reached a point in my life where I'm expected to be an adult, but I feel the same as I did at 17. I never want to forget the things I've loved in my life, or how it feels to be young and carefree" - Jack Tatum

The album is a very refreshing listen, with all of the songs being drenched in spaced out, glamorous shoegaze-ambient sounds. This sound is fairly alike other new bands that are coming out of America at the moment, such as Warpaint and Pure Ecstasy. Another band that these guys remind me of is The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart. I really recommend this album as one to have on while your sunbathing or just sitting up in your room. It is one where you can fully immerse yourself and lose your trail of thought completely.