Download: The Lonely Wild, ‘Buried in the Murder’

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The Lonely Wild’s Old West-flavored Americana stakes out the middle ground between the nuanced narratives you’ll hear on the new Lord Huron album and the epic spaghetti Western psychedelia of Spindrift. The Lonely Wild’s debut album, “The Sun As It Comes” (due next year), aspires to such cinema, its material informed by songwriter Andrew Carroll’s personal triumphs and tragedies. As the L.A. quintet has demonstrated in recent shows (including the opener of their Satellite residency last week), they lack nothing in the way of exuberance, bringing an Edward Sharpe-type energy to the stage. Since their beginnings, the boy-girl harmonies from Carroll and Jessi Williams have become tighter than a fist, and Andrew Schneider’s guitar work gives their folk songs a rockist edge. Carroll may not look like a growler, on the new song “Buried in the Murder,” he digs deep. It’s hard not to shout along.

||| Download: “Buried in the Murder” (email required)


||| Live:
The Lonely Wild continues their residency Monday night at the Satellite, supported by Seasons and Son Ark and also featuring some special guests (playing the late slot) and Buzz Bands LA DJs.