With a Heartland Rock harmonica drawling all over its jangle, the latest single from Wild Nothing distances itself from the project's early beginnings; the washed-out dream-pop swooners recorded by Jack Tatum in his Virginia bedroom giving away to brightness, clarity, and a celebrity guest vocal from Twin Sister's Andrea Estrella.
"Don't come over, unless you want to feel something," Estrella sings, like a challenge to a reluctant, reticent paramour. "For love, for nothing, I can't replace you/in dreams, in dreams, I wake you up."
It's a statement-making turn-of-phrase in a song that's its own statement. The standout opening jam on the debut Wild Nothing LP, Gemini, was called "Live in Dreams"; it was followed by an EP called Golden Haze. States of semi-consciousness and the subconscious have previously been friends to Tatum's craft, but, here, in the bright light of "Nowhere"'s college-rock, it's as if Mr. Wild Nothing is out to rouse himself from said same slumber.
Wild Nothing, "Nowhere"
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