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Few artists are storytellers as deft and disarmingly observational as Andy Shauf. The Toronto-based, Saskatchewan-raised musicians songs unfold like short fiction: theyre densely layered with colorful characters and a rich emotional depth. Like hes done throughout his career, Shauf wrote, performed, arranged,and produced every song on his new album Wilds at his studio space in the west end of Toronto.
Over the course of a year-and-a-half, Shauf had written more than 50 songs, and pared down this massivebody of work, into a single albums worth of material, which became 2020s highly acclaimed The NeonSkyline album. These songs focused on a theme by intertwining the individual characters stories of agroup of friends who gathered for one night at the same local bar. Wilds includes songs from those samewriting sessions, that did not fit into the Skyline storyline and had their own singular identity apart fromthat album, though he does revisit with his old friends Judy and Jeremy in this outing.