An alien race with broken throats gives tacit approval to bellowed song

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Hosted by music journalist Doug Wallen, Waste the Alphabet showcases new independent Australian music. It airs 6-8pm Tuesdays on 88.0 Indigo FM in Beechworth. Podcasts: http://indigofmradio.podomatic.com. Playlists: https://facebook.com/wastethealphabet

Wilding is a classic-pop songwriter from Melbourne with a distinctly British flavour.

Originally from Liverpool, he moved to Australia to live with his grandmother, yet it’s clear that his hometown left an indelible mark on his music – a carousel ride of infectious and melancholic beat-pop. Influences which flow naturally from Wilding ’s early years in Liverpool and the music that was around him.

Wilding’s first two albums, ‘Bird’s Bread (2012)’ and ‘Molecules to Moons (2016)’ received an overwhelmingly positive critical response:

•	‘The musical love child of the modern-day hipster and The Beatles’ – Tone Deaf 8/10 
•	‘... full of nuance between delight and melancholy’ – The Age 4/5 stars 
•	‘It’s a glorious collection of sometimes odd, and mostly endearing, harmonies, found instruments, sweeping melodies’ – The Weekend Australian 4/5 stars 
•	‘... seemingly beamed in from The Beach Boys’ Smile sessions’ – Rave Magazine 4/5 stars

In 2014, Wilding collaborated with Cian Ciarán from Super Furry Animals as 'Ciarán and Wilding' for a UK release on the band’s own label Strangetown Records. Their song ‘Missing Her’ was named as one of BBC Radio Wales’ tracks of 2014. In 2016, Wilding supported Gruff Rhys on his Australian tour.

His latest single, Swipe Right, leads you through the truly dispiriting pursuit of finding human connection through online dating. Swipe Right holds an infectious groove of spiky, syncopated guitars and bouncing synths. A defiant declaration that life begins on the other side of despair.

In the video, filmed at home during Melbourne’s second wave COVID-19 lockdown, Wilding meets a philosophical stick insect via a dating app and together they ponder the nature of existence.

Swipe Right is one of a series of character-study songs Wilding wrote about people who live in his neighbourhood of Coburg, Victoria. 

His concept album, The Death of Foley's Mall is out on Friday 2 October on Half A Cow Records/Valley Arm.

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