instant crush

After a multi-year hiatus, the indie pop maestros, Wild Party, are set to release a new full-length album in 2023. After releasing their debut record, Phantom Pop, in October of 2014, the band toured extensively during the following year and a half before finally calling it quits at the end of 2015.We played probably 100 shows in 2014 and 2015 but there werent a lot of people at the shows who knew the music, and we werent making a lot of moneythings just werent working out, frontman Lincoln Kreifels recalls. Family and financial obligations meant taking the focus away from music for a while.While Phantom Pops infectious melodies and danceable grooves never found a home with a larger market in 2015, the bands nearly decade-old release has recently found a new, devoted fan base online. The Spotify algorithm seemed to suggest us to a lot of new fans who were listening to bands that sounded similar to us, and things really began to take off around 2018. To date, the band has hundreds of millions of streams and a half a million monthly listeners on Spotify alone.A newly found fan-base reinvigorated Kreifels and long-time collaborator Lucas Hughes, and they began demoing songs again in 2018. However, it wasnt until a close call gave Kreifels what he describes as a re-awakening: I got really sick about 9 about months ago, and it was almost a miraculous healing I went from almost dyingmy liver almost failed but I came out of that floating almost, really thankful to be given another chance music is something I need to pursue.