Wild Light (album)

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Wild Light
65daysofstatic - Wild Light.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 16, 2013
Genre Post-rock, electronic
Length50:22
Label Superball Music
Producer 65daysofstatic
65daysofstatic chronology
Silent Running
(2011)
Wild Light
(2013)
"No Man's Sky: Music for an Infinite Universe"
(2016)

Wild Light is the fifth studio album by 65daysofstatic, released on 16 September 2013 in the UK and Europe and on 29 October 2013 in the United States. It is the band's first album released on the Superball Music label. [1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 82/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Clash Music 8/10 [4]
New Musical Express 8/10 [5]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]

Upon release, Wild Light received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 82/100 based on 12 reviews. [2]

"The pomp that they derive from taking dour post-rock to a rave - notable here in Prisms - is satisfying," according to Q . "Similarly enjoyable are pyroclastic flows of guitars and electronics as heard in Unmake the Wild Light," concludes reviewer Luke Turner, giving the album a 3/5 rating. [6]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Heat Death Infinity Splitter"5:06
2."Prisms"5:58
3."The Undertow"6:32
4."Blackspots"7:30
5."Sleepwalk City"6:54
6."Taipei"6:00
7."Unmake the Wild Light"6:24
8."Safe Passage"5:58
Total length:50:22
Digipack bonus track
No.TitleLength
9."Destructivist"4:08
iTunes bonus track
No.TitleLength
9."Doxxx Yrself"5:06

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References

  1. "Superball Music - 65daysofstatic - Wild Light". Superball Music . Retrieved 22 October 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Wild Light Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  3. Kerr, Scott. "Wild Light - 65daysofstatic : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards : AllMusic" . Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  4. Diver, Mike. "Clash Music. Wild Light – 65daysofstatic" . Retrieved 26 October 2013.
  5. Calvert, John. "New Musical Express. Wild Light – 65daysofstatic" . Retrieved 26 October 2013.
  6. 1 2 Turner, Luke (November 2013). "65daysofstatic - Wild Light". Record reviews. New releases. Q . p. 101.