Jack Tatum, front-man of dream pop band Wild Nothing, writes in regards to the joys and challenges of fatherhood on his new album, Maintain.
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Jack Tatum, front-man of dream pop band Wild Nothing, writes in regards to the joys and challenges of fatherhood on his new album, Maintain.
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Dream pop band Wild Nothing launched their final album, Indigo, in 2018. Since then, front-man Jack Tatum moved from Los Angeles to Richmond, Virginia — not removed from the place he grew up.
He says it was the appropriate factor to do in his life. However he admits he had some misgivings about transferring to a a lot smaller metropolis.
“There’s quite a lot of issues that I hate about stereotypical suburban tradition,” Tatum advised NPR’s Morning Version. “However I’ve this mushy spot for strip malls and large field shops, and…there’s one thing about my upbringing that I really feel was quintessentially American.”
On Wild Nothing’s new album, Maintain, Tatum writes about that internal battle on the tune “Suburban Options” — which explores his love-hate relationship with what he calls the “consumerism” of small city life.
Wild Nothing imagines a fictional actual property firm within the tune “Suburban Options”
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“This tune was a bit of bit about making enjoyable of myself and my very own fears of transferring to a smaller metropolis and selecting this lifetime of slowing down, settling down,” Tatum stated.
Tatum then quickly took on one other problem — beginning a household.
“Changing into a father, not less than for me, there was this quick considered… ‘Oh, I do not wish to mess this up, I do not wish to do the incorrect factor, I do not wish to let this particular person down,'” he stated. “I did form of have these wonders about how am I going to tour in the identical approach now? How am I going to search out the time to write down… As quickly as he was born, it was like, I wish to be a gift dad or mum, I wish to be the most effective dad that I can, and so you need to change issues about your life.”
