Guildford’s best-kept indie-punk secret, Wild Tales, released their first single Hourglass for your listening pleasure.
‘This song is asking the listener to question reality and telling them to not let the small issues in life cause them stress,” said vocalist and guitarist Adam Rains,
‘I love this track as it was one of the first we wrote as a band and lyrically it came together very naturally. I have attempted, as I’m sure many others have, to one of life’s great questions. Why do we exist?’
With a chorus hook that will haunt you in your sleep and a lyrical subject that all of us can relate to, Hourglass is set to make listeners fall in love and keep coming back for more.
Wild Tales fuse math-rock and indie influences with pop sensibilities and big choruses, to create a refreshing sound that’s both accessible and musically interesting. They’ll appeal to fans of early Thrice, Marmozets, Biffy Clyro or The XCERTS. Rooted in a close friendship, Wild Tales formed as a new creative outlet for past members of alt-rockers Trails and Atiptoe.
Hourglass is the first taste of their poppy, intricate take on melodic indie-punk. The video was created by Skyline Futures, which is the videography side-project of Lockjaw boss Rob Piper, which he runs with Freddie Cardew-Smith.