Dulling The Horns (CD) | Mint (M) Mint (M)

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Label: Fire Talk – none
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: Oct 4, 2024
Genre: Rock
Style: Indie Rock

1        The Fences Of Stonehenge    2:39
2        Eating The Egg Whole    3:39
3        Cloud Or Mountain    4:22
4        Disintegrate    3:50
5        Sprinter Brain    3:44
6        Dulling The Horns    3:42
7        St. Catherine St.    4:39
8        Catholic Dracula    3:41
9        Bonnie One    1:55
10        Rung Cold    5:51

Glass Mastered At – Disc Makers – MIL0563
Artwork – Nick Nazmi
Bass, Vocals [Additional Vocals] – Arden Yonkers
Drums – Dan Keegan (2)
Engineer – Justin Pizzoferrato
Fiddle – Libby Weitnauer
Guitar [Additional Guitar] – Troy Krucz
Guitar, Vocals – John Ross (17)
Mastered By – Greg Obis
Mixed By – Alex Farrar (2)
Pedal Steel Guitar – Mike 'Slo Mo' Brenner*
Piano – David Moore (15)
Saxophone, Synth – Adam Schatz
Written-By, Producer – John Ross (17)
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“Do you still believe it?” John Ross asks that question after journeying through the wreckage. The genesis of Dulling The Horns goes back to late 2022, when Ross began workshopping new material during soundcheck on the ILYSM tour. Last summer, Wild Pink decamped to western Massachusetts to reunite with engineer Justin Pizzoferrato. Ross decided to record Dulling The Horns live in the room, in an effort to capture Wild Pink’s onstage style — rawer, grainier. Gone are the glimmering atmospherics and studio affectations of recent Wild Pink outings. Instead, Ross’ voice is haggard against the humid distortion coating every song. “I wanted to make economical songs,” Ross explains. “Music that is very much at its core three or four people rocking.” If before, Wild Pink took notes from Springsteen and Petty, they’ve now entered their Crazy Horse era. On Dulling The Horns, you can hear him rediscovering the fire in real time. Tropes discarded along the roadside, songs pulled from the formative DNA of rock music, all filtered through years of messy fog. “There is no answer to these problems,” Ross says, having eventually yielded. But as far Dulling The Horns is concerned, there’s at least one path forward: Burn it all away, and keep moving. The album was mixed by Alex Farrar in Asheville NC, mastered by Greg Obis in Chicago, IL and is out in October on Fire Talk.

• Media Condition: Mint (M)
• Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
• Format Detail: CD
• Format: CD
• Genre: ALT/INDIE
• Format Type: CD
• Released: 10/18/24