“Jack Tatum’s Los Angeles album finds him expanding his ambitions, but neither his songwriting nor his mood-setting measure up to the polish or the scale of his aspirational, accessible indie pop.”
“If Wild Nothing’s new album couldn’t be timeless, mastermind Jack Tatum wanted it to sound, in his words, “at least ‘out of time.’” For some reason, he figured that focusing on ’80s-style synthesizers would do the trick. In a way, it did, but probably not in the way he imagined. On 11 songs flush with glossy synths buffed to a rubbery sheen, Indigo plays like a pure, but unoriginal tribute to ’80s”
“When Jack Tatum shared his first tentative musical posts online nearly a decade ago, he ascended rapidly to the heights of blogosphere adoration. The first Wild Nothing album ‘Gemini’ was lauded as a landmark in bedroom lo-fi. In the years since, two further albums have documented Tatum’s transition into a studio hound, a highly refined, maximalist producer. On this fourth record, he has recruite”
