Wild Pink Releases 'Dulling The Horns (Deluxe Edition)' !
Wild Pink — the songwriting moniker of NYC’s John Ross — releases Dulling The Horns (Deluxe Edition), a compilation of guest reworks, alternate mixes, and live tracks from the band’s beloved live performances. Following collaborations with John Moreland and Fenne Lily, Wild Pink also unveils Dulling The Horns (Deluxe Edition)’s final advance single, “St. Catherine St. (Live).” Dulling The Horns was written and recorded with the intention of distilling the essence of Wild Pink’s beloved live shows, and today’s “St. Catherine St. (Live)” captures that lightning-in-a-bottle energy. Recorded at Wild Pink’s recent sold-out residency at Union Pool, “St. Catherine St. (Live)” reiterates that “Wild Pink” are indie perfection” (CLASH).
Dulling The Horns is coarse, lived-in, visceral — music intended to be played live, with pounding rhythms and guitars bleeding all over. “I wanted to make economical songs,” Ross explains. “Music that is very much at its core three or four people rocking.” Surrounding its release, Dulling The Horns was named one of 2024’s best albums by Vogue, Toronto Star, UPROXX, Consequence and more. Widely regarded as Wild Pink’s best album to-date, Dulling The Horns ‘received praise from critics and fans alike heralding the album as “more fun than anything in [Wild Pink’s] catalog” (Pitchfork).
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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