Empty Estate

EPMay 14 / 20137 songs, 28m 46s
Dream Pop Indie Pop
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Purchase physical LP/CD/Cassette via the label store www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/empty-estate The 7-song EP was recorded in Brooklyn at Gary’s Electric by Al Carlson in January and finds Jack Tatum exploring new sounds, new instruments and a new voice for Wild Nothing.

6.6 / 10

Wild Nothing's new EP is his most synth-heavy outing yet. It has the same relationship to its full-length predecessor as the Golden Haze EP did his debut: it’s noticeably bolder, sounds more expensive and crafted with live performance in mind.

7.3 / 10

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Jack Tatum's gleaming nocturnal synth pop as Wild Nothing produced not only an incredible string of recordings, but also spearheaded a micro-movement of indie-level dream pop more rooted in the '80s synth reflections of acts like Echo & the Bunnymen or Aztec Camera than the mumbly fractalized bedroom productions coming from chillwave circles.

8 / 10

8.5 / 10

After the dizzying heights reached by 2012's Nocturne, one could hardly blame Jack Tatum, aka Wild Nothing, for settling for more of the same with a follow-up record in a couple of years.

5 / 10

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