NYC-based indie/dream pop/alt project Wild Arrows (aka Mike Law) has shared his new single “Animal“, alongside a music video.
The track is out now and follows on from his acclaimed EP Rejection Bloom, released last year. Grab it here.
Mike Law of Wild Arrows has been participating in the DIY music scene since his first band EULCID toured and shared the stage with the likes of Fugazi, Cave In, and Converge in his hometown of Boston and around the United States. Moving on quickly he and Cave In’s Stephen Brodsky founded the more melodic indie rock New Idea Society and toured the U.S. Europe and Japan from the aughts until Law began his main project Wild Arrows.
Rejection Bloom brought Law to his most accessible.”Animal” brings Law closer to his roots with a renewed interest in loud guitar but with the accessibility of Rejection Bloom.
On the song, Law says:
“Animal” is the first time I’ve been excited by guitar for a very, very, very, long time. After I lost my studio and all of my gear in Hurricane Sandy I didn’t feel connected to a guitar sound. The combination of guitar and amp I’d found my way to over a lifetime was not being easily replaced. But by accident this Winter I put two amps together via different pedals and blended them to something that really excited my ears. Having read that when Kim Deal of the Breeders gets an idea she follows through in the moment and completes it I decided to do the same thing and I put this song together immediately in about 17 hours. Gary Atturio mixed it a few months later and here it is. It’s about trading teeth with a lion and the fallout with its family over the deal.
Watch listen below.
Photo credit: Joe Jagos
