In an era of pop music where many bands feel the need to drop their guitar to make pop music, Wild Love is doing anything but the sort, and intends to bring a little attitude back to pop music…
meet Wild Love, your new favorite band.
Originally formed from a chance high school bus stop encounter in Virginia, the band hails from all over the world (Ireland, Turkey, New York) and quickly made a name for themselves after moving to Nashville, playing larger venues like Marathon Music Works, festivals like Live on the Green, and receiving support from Nashville’s largest independent radio station Lightning 100 across all their singles. Since the move, through the singing and songwriting of frontman Brandon Gorman (Ireland), the production of guitarist Michael Crecca (New York) and groove of bassist Saygīn Geçener (Turkey), they’ve taken their lively, attitude driven rock sound and channeled it into hook heavy pop songs for a new era of Wild Love.
“We’re stepping in front of the filter. No bullshit anymore — lyrically, sonically, how we present ourselves, how we do what everything really” says Gorman. “Honesty is the best policy, and as cliché as that sounds, it’s the mentality we’ve been operating under since we started making this new music, and it’s been getting the best out of us and these songs”.
Crecca adds “And we’re having more fun — we’re taking our music seriously, but everything else that comes with it, we’re just doing what comes natural, feels good, feels like us, and not overthinking it. You wanna know who we are, you wanna get to know us more…this is it.”
Throughout the pandemic they finished and released their record ‘They Called Me Kid’, where they explored darker yet more professional sounds and songwriting, opening the door to be able to make the music they’re making now.
This new era of is set to boast songs the have the attitude of 90s/2000s pop punk bands like Green Day and Sum 41, the sonic and lyrical tone of British guitar bands like Blur, The Vaccines and Franz Ferdinand, with the sheen of modern pop bands like Valley and The Academic…and It all starts with their newest single, “I Hate That I Need You”, out September 1st.
When asked about their new single “I Hate That I Need You”, Brandon says “the title and lyrics kind of say it all like. Not much more to say about it. It’s my internal monologue that slipped out and very much a look into how I process things.”