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…

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