Desolation Wilderness
New Universe

A lot of music aims for summer, the idea of summer as a season of feel good warmth, of fullness, but also as something experienced in youth?kaleidesco...

So, then, gauzy: slightly wispy, usually reverb-soaked, never too well defined around the edges, floaty and imprecise like a memory. New Universe, the...

Impressionistic young auteur Nicolaas Zwart honed his band’s wistful sound while interning at the studio of K Records founder Calvin Johnson, and rece...

Desolation Wilderness spent plenty of time on the road between their first record and New Universe. That seems to be the gist behind their follow-up: ...

Since the turn of the millennium, the popular conception of "indie" as an aesthetic has been steadily moving toward an all-out embrace of an inoffensi...

West coast band Desolation Wilderness’s new album on K Records is called New Universe. The band’s name and album title both call to mind vast spaces o...