Wild Pink, Truth Club
Wild Pink, Truth Club takes place at Holland Project in Reno on March 28, 2027. 140 Vesta St, Reno, NV 89502, USA.
Holland Project, 140 Vesta St, Reno, NV 89502, USA, Reno
There’s a novelistic impression to the songs of Wild Pink, where characters peer over the edgeof potential futures, past mistakes and paths not taken. Backed by a dive bar hue, NYC-basedfrontman John Ross blends the existential with the celestial, gathering pieces of passer-bys,fictional figures, and historical idiosyncrasies to make sense of what’s in front of him. It’s on theirsixth album, Still Coming Down, that Ross cements the voice he’s been steadily honing over theyears.The album pokes fun at the listlessness of consumerism, coping through detachment andfinding the punchline of it all. Ross is a consummate of curiosity, becoming a narrator of awarped and unpredictable America, morphing everyday mundanity into a cinematic, sepia-tonedflipbook. Propelled by the witty and ravenous wisdom of 2024’s Dulling the Horns, Ross’ poeticform has only gained traction, as jocular, heartfelt stories pour with a clever and distinctive ease.NFL bros cruise alongside big guys in grocery stores with even bigger tattoos; ghost stories andreferences from the cinematic haze of movies like Heat, Moneyball and The Town buzz in thebackground while Ross also points to Waterworld and The Perfect Storm––heroes who wander,looking for answers at the end of the world.“So, how to proceed?” Travis Harrington asks on the final track of Running From the Chase, the commanding new album from Truth Club. How do you move forward when the present moment is rife with mounting challenges — when you’re caught between the weight of the past and the uncertainty of the future? Running From the Chase was written in part through a time of intense personal hardship for Harrington, but it was through these struggles he and his bandmates (drummer Elise Jaffe, guitarist/bassist Kameron Vann, and guitarist/bassist/singer Yvonne Chazal) gained a deeper appreciation of the power of their shared creative endeavor, both the cathartic release found in the dynamic squall of their music and in the friendships forged by this communal pursuit. Their album doesn’t have an easy answer to Harrington’s searching question, but under these songs’ bruising exteriors, you can hear the sound of a band looking towards one another to learn how to move forward.ALWAYS ALL AGES