Wild Pink Shares New Single "Eating The Egg Whole", 'Dulling The Horns' Out October 4th !
Wild Pink's new LP Dulling The Horns will be released in a little less than a month on Fire Talk Records. The album is Wild Pink's 5th full length, arriving after a long crescendo of acclaim that reached a new peak around the release of the band's last LP, 2022's ILYSM. An album made in the midst of leader John Ross' cancer diagnosis and treatment, that record was Wild Pink's most expansive and experimental, widening the palette of the bands sound and incorporating a vast collection of new genre and production ideas as well as a host of collaborators, including Julien Baker, Yasmin Williams and J. Mascis.
On the band's new record they have streamlined things, making an album that applies the lessons of their more expansive recent records to tighter arrangements built around some of Ross' strongest songwriting to date. The album has so far been preceded by the release of two singles "Sprinter Brain" and "The Fences of Stonehenge," which have seen a growing consensus in the press that Dulling The Horns might be a new high water mark for the band, and an album to cement their leader John Ross as "one of the most consistently excellent songwriters in indie rock" (Uproxx).
Last week, the band announced a new leg of their tour in support of the album, which will include a run of dates with MJ Lenderman, and today they're providing another preview of their forthcoming album with a single called "Eating The Egg Whole."
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“Do you still believe it?” John Ross asks that question after journeying through the wreckage. The genesis of Dulling The Horns goes back to late 2022, when Ross began workshopping new material during soundcheck on the ILYSM tour. Last summer, Wild Pink decamped to western Massachusetts to reunite with engineer Justin Pizzoferrato. Ross decided to record Dulling The Horns live in the room, in an effort to capture Wild Pink’s onstage style — rawer, grainier. Gone are the glimmering atmospherics and studio affectations of recent Wild Pink outings. Instead, Ross’ voice is haggard against the humid distortion coating every song. “I wanted to make economical songs,” Ross explains. “Music that is very much at its core three or four people rocking.” If before, Wild Pink took notes from Springsteen and Petty, they’ve now entered their Crazy Horse era. On Dulling The Horns, you can hear him rediscovering the fire in real time. Tropes discarded along the roadside, songs pulled from the formative DNA of rock music, all filtered through years of messy fog. “There is no answer to these problems,” Ross says, having eventually yielded. But as far Dulling The Horns is concerned, there’s at least one path forward: Burn it all away, and keep moving. The album was mixed by Alex Farrar in Asheville NC, mastered by Greg Obis in Chicago, IL and is out in October on Fire Talk.
*New Deluxe Blue Swirl is a Pre Order and will ship approximately October 2025
“Do you still believe it?” John Ross asks that question after journeying through the wreckage. The genesis of Dulling The Horns goes back to late 2022, when Ross began workshopping new material during soundcheck on the ILYSM tour. Last summer, Wild Pink decamped to western Massachusetts to reunite with engineer Justin Pizzoferrato. Ross decided to record Dulling The Horns live in the room, in an effort to capture Wild Pink’s onstage style — rawer, grainier. Gone are the glimmering atmospherics and studio affectations of recent Wild Pink outings. Instead, Ross’ voice is haggard against the humid distortion coating every song. “I wanted to make economical songs,” Ross explains. “Music that is very much at its core three or four people rocking.” If before, Wild Pink took notes from Springsteen and Petty, they’ve now entered their Crazy Horse era. On Dulling The Horns, you can hear him rediscovering the fire in real time. Tropes discarded along the roadside, songs pulled from the formative DNA of rock music, all filtered through years of messy fog. “There is no answer to these problems,” Ross says, having eventually yielded. But as far Dulling The Horns is concerned, there’s at least one path forward: Burn it all away, and keep moving. The album was mixed by Alex Farrar in Asheville NC, mastered by Greg Obis in Chicago, IL and is out in October on Fire Talk.
Get both "Dulling The Horns" + the "Strawberry Eraser" EP on color vinyl plus the album art tee. Ships from the US only.
“Do you still believe it?” John Ross asks that question after journeying through the wreckage. The genesis of Dulling The Horns goes back to late 2022, when Ross began workshopping new material during soundcheck on the ILYSM tour. Last summer, Wild Pink decamped to western Massachusetts to reunite with engineer Justin Pizzoferrato. Ross decided to record Dulling The Horns live in the room, in an effort to capture Wild Pink’s onstage style — rawer, grainier. Gone are the glimmering atmospherics and studio affectations of recent Wild Pink outings. Instead, Ross’ voice is haggard against the humid distortion coating every song. “I wanted to make economical songs,” Ross explains. “Music that is very much at its core three or four people rocking.” If before, Wild Pink took notes from Springsteen and Petty, they’ve now entered their Crazy Horse era. On Dulling The Horns, you can hear him rediscovering the fire in real time. Tropes discarded along the roadside, songs pulled from the formative DNA of rock music, all filtered through years of messy fog. “There is no answer to these problems,” Ross says, having eventually yielded. But as far Dulling The Horns is concerned, there’s at least one path forward: Burn it all away, and keep moving. The album was mixed by Alex Farrar in Asheville NC, mastered by Greg Obis in Chicago, IL and is out in October on Fire Talk.
Get both "Dulling The Horns" and the "Strawberry Eraser" EP on color vinyl for one low price.
Tour Dates
10.10 - Stockholm, SE @ Slaktyrkan
10.11 - Oslo, SE @ Belleville
10.12 - Copenhagen, DK @ Stengade
10.13 - Berlin, DE @ Badehaus
10.14 - Hamburg, DE @Aalhaus
10.16 - Cologne, DE @ Blue Shell
10.17 - Rotterdam, NL @ Left Of The Dial Festival
10.18 - Rotterdam, NL @ Left Of The Dial Festival
10.19 - Utrecht, NL @ EKKO
10.21 - London, UK @ Moth Club
10.22 - Edinburgh, UK @ Sneaky Pete's
10.23 - Glasgow, UK @ Mono
10.24 - Newcastle, UK @ The Cluny
10.25 - Leeds, UK @ Headrow House
10.26 - Bristol, UK @ The Crofters Right
11.08 - Kingston, NY @ Tubby's @
11.09 - Buffalo, NY @ Mohawk @
11.10 - Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Tavern @
11.11 - Windsor, ON @ The Meteor
11.12 - Kalamazoo, MI @ Bells @
11.14 - Milwaukee, WI @ XRay Arcade *
11.15 - Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle *
11.16 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Pittsburgh Winery *
11.17 - Washington, DC @ DC9 *
11.19 - Portland, ME @ Space *
11.20 - Boston, MA @ The Rockwell *
11.21 - Philadelphia, PA @ Ukie Club *
11.22 - Brooklyn, NY @ Union Pool *
11.23 - Brooklyn, NY @ Union Pool %
01.29 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle $
01.30 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle $
01.31 - Athens, GA @ 40 Watt $
02.01 - Birmingham, AL @ Saturn $
02.02 - Oxford, MS @ Proud Larry's $
02.04 - New Orleans, LA @ Tipitina's $
02.05 - Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall $
02.06 - Austin, TX @ Emo's $
02.08 - Oklahoma City, OK @ Beer City Music Hall $
02.10 - Santa Fe, NM @ Tumble Root $
02.11 - Tuscon, AZ @ 191 Toole $
02.13 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre $
02.14 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre $
02.15 - Santa Cruz, CA @ Rio Theatre $
02.17 - San Francisco, CA @ The Independent $
02.18 - San Francisco, CA @ The Independent $
02.20 - Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall $
02.21 - Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre $
02.22 - Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre $
02.23 - Boise, ID @ Shrine Social Club $
02.24 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Soundwell $
02.26 - Fort Collins, CO @ Aggie Theatre $
02.27 - Boulder, CO @ Fox Theatre $
02.28 - Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theatre $
03.01 - Colorado Springs, CO @ The Black Sheep $
03.03 - Lawrence, KS @ The Bottleneck $
03.04 - Urbana, IL @ Rose Bowl Tavern $
03.06 - Lexington, KY @ The Green Lantern Bar $
03.07 - Lexington, KY @ The Green Lantern Bar $
$ W/ MJ Lenderman