Released: 25/02/22
Like every record Superchunk has made over the last 30-some years, Wild Loneliness is unskippably excellent and infectious, a blend of stripped-down and lush; electric and acoustic. On Wild Loneliness, it feels like the band is refocusing on possibility, and possibility is built into the songs themselves, in the sweet surprises tucked inside them.
Because of COVID, Superchunk's Mac, Laura, Jim, and Jon each recorded separately, but a silver lining is that this method made other long-distance contributions possible, such as from R.E.M.’s Mike Mills, Sharon Van Etten, Franklin Bruno, Tracyanne Campbell of Camera Obscura, and Norman Blake and Raymond McGinley of Teenage Fanclub, whose trademark harmonies augment one of Wild Loneliness's many stand-out tracks, 'Endless Summer'.