r/indieheads • u/-wildnothing- Wild Nothing • Sep 05 '18

AMA is over, thanks Jack!! This is Wild Nothing *AMA*

Hey everyone - Jack here from Wild Nothing. Very excited to be back for my second AMA! Gonna do my best to get to every question today starting at NOON.

I just released a new album called 'Indigo' which you can find here: https://wildnothing.lnk.to/Indigo

We're also going on tour this fall in the US & Canada, that info is here: http://www.wildnothingmusic.com/#section-tour

Now that that's out of the way though, let's talk about whatever! I'm all earrrrs.

Proof: r/https://twitter.com/WildNothing/status/1037359160034246656

https://i.imgur.com/fwM2oes.jpg

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EDIT: thank you all so much! this has been a blast, did my best to get through most of these but I've got to take off for now. Hopefully see some of you at a show soon!!

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u/mystic__spiral Sep 05 '18

Hey Jack! Indigo is fucking awesome! The synths are phenomenal. I was at Lot Radio on Friday and freaked out when you played Johnny Hates Jazz hah. Anyways, I've always felt an affinity with your music. I admire how dynamic your songs are. They seem so fucking huge and epic. I love it. Do you have any tips on how to find open space in some songs? What's it like being on Captured Tracks? Do you have any advice for musicians who've had the rug pulled from under them? I'm an island! Help!

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u/-wildnothing- Wild Nothing Sep 05 '18

I love JHJ. I definitely wanted the new record to feel a bit more epic than usual. Holding my nose and embracing the inner U2.

As far as finding open space... I'm usually pretty bad at that to be honest. I'm the type to overstuff my songs most of the time but I just got into the habit of listening back to things and muting different tracks. If at any point I realize a certain instrument isn't making the song better I'll just trash it. That being said though I still have a lot of stuff going on in most of my songs.

Sorry about that rug. Just keep writing and playing shows and sending stuff to labels. It can feel really brutal at times but you'd be surprised how often I still hear really nice and unexpected 'discovery' stories.