Superchunk - Wild Loneliness

Released 25th February 2022.

"Like every record Superchunk has made over the last thirty-some years, Wild Loneliness is unskippably excellent and infectious. Its a blend of stripped-down and lush, electric and acoustic, highs and lows, and I love it all. On Wild Loneliness I hear echoes of Come Pick Me Up, Heres to Shutting Up, and Majesty Shredding. After the (ahem, completely justifiable) anger of What a Time to Be Alive, this new record is less about what weve lost in these harrowing times and more about what we have to be thankful for. (I know something about gratitude.

Ive been a huge Superchunk fan since the 1990s, around the same time I first found my way to poetry, so the fact that Im writing these words feels like a minor miracle.) 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. I say all the time that what makes