Wild Pink share duet with Julien Baker "Hold My Hand"

"Whether you're a music-first or lyrics-first listener, Wild Pink makes music for you. A Billion Little Lights, the Brooklyn trio's third album, covers expansive terrain without losing any emotional impact"
NPR

"2021's best rock album."
New York Magazine

"One of rock's tiny masterpieces"
Billboard

"open-air, stargazing indie rock"
The New York Times

"Splitting the difference between War on Drugs and Death Cab for Cutie, the latest from the Brooklyn band offers indie rock at its most familiar and instantly gratifying."
Pitchfork

"One of the most exquisitely pretty rock albums in recent memory"
Stereogum

"an album for the ages"
Upset (Albums of the Year 2021)

"from folk-adjacent lullaby to stadium filling anthem"
Uncut

Last month, Wild Pink announced their fourth full-length, ILYSM. Out October 14th on Royal Mountain Records, the album was co-produced by the groups leader John Ross, with Justin Pizzoferrato (Pixies, Body/Head, Speedy Ortiz) and Peter Silberman of The Antlers, and finds Wild Pink joining forces with a thrilling lineup of guest musicians, including J Mascis, Julien Baker, Ryley Walker, Yasmin Williams and Samantha Crain. The follow-up to 2021’s A Billion Little Lights—a critically acclaimed effort praised by the likes of Pitchfork, NPR, The New York Times, Billboard, MTV, New York Magazine, and Stereogum, who called it “one of the prettiest rock records of the past decade”—ILYSM sees Wild Pink at their most bracingly personal, as the album's thematic focus is an examination of Ross' recent struggle with cancer.

Following the release of the album's title track, today Wild Pink are sharing a second single from the record, a duet with Julien Baker entitled "Hold My Hand", a song that concerns an experience Ross had just prior to his first cancer surgery. 

LISTEN to "Hold My Hand" (feat. Julien Baker) HERE

"I wrote that song right after my first surgery, about lying on the operating table where a member of the surgical team held my hand right before I went under,” says Ross. “It sounds kind of arbitrary, and like it shouldn’t have been as impactful as it was, but I felt very comforted and wanted to capture that loving feeling in the song. 

"I knew pretty quickly that I wanted it to be a duet, and I’m super grateful to Julien for joining me on it. This was one of the first songs we rehearsed together as a band in the studio and David’s piano part felt great almost immediately. There were a couple moments like that in the recording process where a song just immediately fell into place as soon as we started playing it."

Wild Pink's ILYSM is out via Royal Mountain Records on October 14th. It is available for preorder here.

Tour Dates
10/12 - Boston, MA @ The Middle East (Upstairs) *
10/13 - Portland, ME @ Sun Tiki Studios *
10/14 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Made *
10/15 - Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brendas *
10/16 - Washington, DC @DC9*
10/17 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Spirit Hall*
10/18 - Toronto, ON @ The Drake*
10/20 - Montreal, QC @ L’escogriffe*
10/21 - Burlington, VT @ Foam Brewery*
11/8 - Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
11/9 - Brighton, UK @ The Hope & Ruin
11/10 - Bristol, UK @ The Exchange
11/11 - London, UK @ Pitchfork London
11/12 - Manchester, UK @ Yes Basement
11/13 - Glasgow, UK @ The Hug & Pint
11/14 - Dublin, IE @ The Workmans Cellar
11/16 - Paris, FR @ Supersonic
11/17 - Luzern, CH @ Schuur
11/18 - Prague, CZ @ Cafe V Lese
11/19 - Berlin, DE @ Marie Antoinette
11/20 - Copenhagen, DK @ Rahuset
11/21 - Hamburg, DE @ Aalhaus
11/22 - Munster, DE @ Pension Schmidt
11/25 - Kingston, NY @ Tubby’s*
11/26 - Syracuse, NY @ Funk N Waffles*
11/27 - Detroit, MI @ Loving Touch*
11/28 - Chicago, IL @ Sleeping Village*
11/29 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7Th Street*
12/1 - Denver, CO @ Globe Hall*
12/2 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court*
12/3 - Boise, ID @ The Shredder*
12/4 - Spokane, WA @ Lucky You Lounge*
12/5 - Seattle, WA @ Barboza*
12/7 - Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios*
12/9 - San Francisco, CA @ Bottom Of The Hill*
12/10 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Airliner*
12/11 - San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar*
12/12 - Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar*
12/14 - Austin, TX @ Mohawk*
12/15 - Dallas, TX @ Three Links*
12/17 - Nashville, TN @ The Basement*
* w/ Trace Mountains

Tracklist
1. Cahooting The Multiverse
2. Hold My Hand Feat. Julien Baker
3. Hell Is Cold
4. ILYSM
5. St. Beater Camry
6. Abducted At The Grief Retreat
7. War On Terror
8. Simple Glyphs
9. See You Better Now
10. Sucking On The Birdshot
11. The Grass Widow In The Glass Window
12. ICLYM

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