Get ready to dive into Wild Pink’s sixth long player, Still Coming Down, which clocks in at just under 33 minutes. The notably concise record finds frontman John Ross trimming the fat in favor of swaggering rock and roll. After the songwriter’s battle with cancer and being a father for the first time, he learned there was plenty of meaning to be found in going back to the basics. The band’s approach exemplifies this newfound vantage point, even if the album would have benefited by creating some space every now and then.
Wild Pink lean into the fact that this is a genuine rock record with big arrangements and even bigger riffs. The recording process at Drop of Sun Studios in Asheville, North Carolina, with producer Alex Farrar (Wednesday, Indigo De Souza,…
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John Ross hasn’t been hiding, exactly, but the Wild Pink mastermind has often taken cover behind music that evokes other music. He’s an inspired enough writer that his personality has tended to show through anyway, though there was always a sense that we weren’t getting the full picture of what Ross could do. Wild Pink’s latest album clears that up.
Dulling the Horns is the band’s most distinctive release so far. It is beholden neither to the hushed piano arrangements and whispery vocals of 2022’s ILYSM, which Ross finished writing after he was diagnosed with cancer (he has since recovered), nor to the lush, indie-adult alternative sound of 2021’s A Billion Little Lights. If there’s an antecedent in the band’s catalog, it’s…