Jack Tatum’s dream-pop project, Wild Nothing is slated to unveil its third outing, Life of Pause on February 19, courtesy of Captured Tracks (Bella Union in the UK/Europe).  Having witnessed two-lenghthy years since their last EP, Empty Estate, Tatum and his band-of-misfits “solely on the road” enlisted the prodigious hands of famed producer: Thom Monahan to guide the latest verve of his keystrokes.

Taking substantial steps off the beaten path, Wild Nothing issues a tantalizing tease of where they’re currently traversing their sound with such driven-cuts, “To Know You” and “TV Queen”:

As an artist fulfilling a “one-man-show” in the studio and a stack of gifted players to flesh out a touring live-show at the helm, Jack Tatum explained the band’s guise in 2013:

“I’m not really sure what we are at this point. It’s a weird grey area. On the road, it definitely feels like a band; the live show’s all about how we individually interpret the songs I made – there’s five different takes on them. But the records are all me.  Gemini (2010) was all me, and so was Nocturne (2012), save for the drums.”

Recorded during various sessions scattered back-and-forth between both Stockholm and Los Angeles, Life of Pause plays host to an onslaught of guest artists, including: Peter Bjorn & John‘s John Ericsson and Medicine‘s Brad Laner.  Tatum releases his notions behind the new record:

“I desperately wanted for this to be the kind of record that would displace me.  I’m terrified by the idea of being any one thing, or being of any one genre.  And whether or not I accomplish that, I know that my only hope of getting there is to constantly reinvent.  That reinvention doesn’t need to be drastic, but every new record has to have it’s own identity, and it has to have a separate set of goals from what came before.”

Life of Pause

01. Reichpop
02. Lady Blue
03. A Woman’s Wisdom
04. Japanese Alice
05. Life of Pause
06. Alien
07. To Know You
08. Adore
09. TV Queen
10. Whenever I
11. Love Underneath My Thumb