“Shadow” by Wild Nothing

"Shadow" was the first song Wild Nothing let loose from Nocturne, the band's second album, released in 2012 on Captured Tracks, and it announced that Jack Tatum had outgrown the laptop. His debut, Gemini, had been recorded entirely on one; this time the success of that record bought him a proper studio and a proper producer in Nicolas Vernhes, and "Shadow" spends the upgrade on a string section, something Tatum said he could never have managed outside a studio.

Vernhes produced, engineered and mixed it, with Wild Nothing credited for extra production and mixing, and the words and music are Wild Nothing's own. Tatum has said the real gift of those sessions was having someone expert to bounce ideas off, not a license to change his sound, and "Shadow" plays like a bigger room rather than a different band.

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