Wild Pink Premiere New Song COACHES WHO CRY

Oakland's Wild Pink are following their widely acclaimed 2018 album Yolk In The Fur with the EP 5 Songs, due out this Friday, March 1. The EP consists of three remixes and two unreleased tracks from the Yolk In The Fur sessions, and today they're sharing one of those tracks, "Coaches Who Cry." Billboard premiered the song today, writing, "It's packed with homemade grandeur, with mood-setting acoustics and cryptic lyrics leading to a dramatic finish." In an accompanying interview, frontman John Ross shared the song's origins, saying, "The ending is about a memory I have of being really young, when on one particular Thanksgiving, all of our family, friends, and neighbors smoked turkeys in a smoker in our yard. It was snowing pretty hard and everyone seemed to be having a great time. I grew up in a town that was small at the time and had a strong sense of community. Which I think informed the person I've become."

LISTEN / SHARE: "COACHES WHO CRY"

5 Songs is out this Friday, March 1 on Tiny Engines and is available for pre-order HERE. Yolk In The Fur is OUT NOW.

Wild Pink will be touring this spring, with two headlining dates in March and a tour opening for Strand Of Oaks in April and May. Catch them at:

Wild Pink Spring 2019 Tour Dates

* w/ Active Bird Community

^ w/ Strand Of Oaks

3/01: Comet Ping Pong - Washington, DC *

3/02: Bowery Ballroom - New York, NY *

4/22: Teragram Ballroom - Los Angeles, CA ^

4/23: The Independent - San Francisco, CA ^

4/25: Mississippi Studios - Portland, OR ^

4/26: Neumos - Seattle, WA ^

4/27: Biltmore Cabaret - Vancouver, BC ^

4/28: The Bartlett - Spokane, WA ^

5/08: The Sinclair - Cambridge, MA ^

5/10: Union Transfer - Philadelphia, PA ^

PRAISE FOR YOLK IN THE FUR:

"Following a debut steeped in generational aimlessness, the Brooklyn band's second album thrives on a combination of rock extroversion and frontman John Ross' hard-won and tenuous new optimism." - PITCHFORK

"The lush, practically baroque instrumentation on this album is so earnest and straight-up pretty that it could melt the strongest armor." - STEREOGUM

"'Lake Erie' certainly carries Wild Pink's awed wonder, with Ross' impressionistic detail to the movement of life... But where the band might have turned up the distortion to drive a point home before, Wild Pink leans into a soft-hard dynamic with spacious pedal steel and crisp, lively percussion." - NPR

"It has a certain cinematic, sentimental quality that recalls the golden age of TV soundtracks." - THE FADER

"Yolk in the Fur is such a drastic step up from Wild Pink's debut that if they keep progressing at this rate, it's looking like they'll have a very bright future. - BROOKLYN VEGAN

"Whatever vaguely '80s heartland motorik + classic rock quality has made The War on Drugs an amphitheater band, Wild Pink has it, too." - PASTE

"One of Indie Rock's Best Young Bands... Wild Pink has a small but growing following that deserves to expand dramatically." - UPROXX

Wild Pink - 5 Songs EP

March 1, 2019 - Tiny Engines

1. There Is A Ledger (Shy Layers Remix)
2. Love Is Better (Dondadi Remix)
3. All Some Frenchman's Joke (Eerie Gaits Remix)
4. Coaches Who Cry
5. How's The Tap Here

With 5 Songs, Wild Pink make a quick return on the heels of their critically-acclaimed sophomore album, Yolk In The Fur, which was released in July of 2018 on Tiny Engines. 5 Songs, due out in March of 2019, sees three Yolk In The Fur tracks receiving the remix treatment and also showcases two unreleased songs from the Yolk In The Fur recording sessions. Existing somewhere between the band's understated Self-Titled debut album and the more sprawling follow-up, Yolk In The Fur, these tracks once again highlight the band's incredible knack for writing subtle but timeless songs that open up slowly but hit hard. "Coaches Who Cry" is about being young and growing up in Virginia. "How's The Tap Here?" is about how relationships change and also about a dog. The remixes come from Shy Layers, Dondadi (ambient/electronic project of Connor Hanwick, a sometimes touring member of Wild Pink) and Eerie Gaits, which is the solo ambient guitar project of Wild Pink lead man John Ross. 5 Songs is a small but powerful reminder that Wild Pink are truly on to something.

Photo credit: Hayden Sitomer

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