Following their 2021 album A Billion Little Lights, Wild Pink released a couple transcendent one-off singles—"Florida" and "Q. Degraw"—to tide us over until their next release—though it seems we didn't have to wait too long. Today, they've announced their fourth full-length ILYSM and shared the titled track, which feels urgent and grand like an anthem rivaling those of U2 or Arcade Fire. The album, which is out October 14 on Royal Mountain Records, was co-produced by the group's John Ross with Justin Pizzoferrato (Pixies, Speedy Ortiz). ILYSM also features an exciting lineup of a guest musicians: J Mascis, Julien Baker, Ryley Walker, Yasmin Williams, and Samantha Crain.
"This song, like a few others on this record, takes place where I live and the field next to it," Ross says about the new single. "A full moon will light up all the rooms here in a way I’ve never really seen and I feel like this song wrote itself a little bit. This album is about love in its many forms and this song in particular is a metaphor for love and obsession."
The track also comes with a visualizer by John Smith that used the Dall-E 2 AI system to make the art. "The imagery of the specific clips were directly inspired by different lyrical lines or references, then edited together to make an experimental animation," Smith said. "Perhaps one of the first animations using this new model. Early in the pandemic I started a deep dive learning about how I could use and utilize machine learning in my creative practice, and I found that it can be a very exciting and expressive tool for image making."
Watch the video for "ILYSM" below, and pre-order the album here.
