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Official Video for “Pillow Talk” from Wild Child (Austin, TX) + stream their song “Cocaine Hurricane”; Wild Child plays the Drunken Unicorn this Thur 3/1 on their way to SXSW
Wild Child are playing the Drunken Unicorn this coming Thursday, March 1st. Tickets are only $6. Buy Tickets here.
…a bit about the making of the video from the band: “Director, Rob Wadleigh, flew down from Brooklyn last October and had two days to shoot the video while we were passing through Austin while on the road with (Danish band) The Migrant. It was 48 hours of total chaos; we battled crazy rain storms, sleep deprivation, sweaty Texas heat, equipment failure and so much more. Despite the setbacks, Rob’s simple and bittersweet vision of our single ‘Pillow Talk’ prevailed.”
Lyrics for “Pillow Talk”:
When I sleep I’m dreaming
When I sleep I’m dreaming
When I sleep I’m dreaming for you
Feel my heart it’s aching, wish I could stop breaking
Spend all day just thinking for you
When I sleep I’m thinking
When I sleep I’m thinking
When I sleep I’m thinking for her
Wish I still could love you, floating high above you
Just don’t think I’m sinking for you
This pillow talk, don’t wake me up
My dream is done, I’m still in love
I know your fears, Just lying here
I think I’ll leave, please don’t my dear
This pillow talk will wake me up no matter what I’m dreaming
When you leave I’m lying
When you leave I’m lying
When you leave I’m lying for you
And i know it hurts you, nothing else I can do
You wont let me though I want to
This pillow talk, don’t wake me up
My dream is done, I’m still in love
I know your fears, Just lying here
I think I’ll leave, please don’t my dear
This pillow talk will wake me up no matter what I’m dreaming
Pack my things I’m leaving, wish I could start breathing
No you’ll be coming back for me
If we fight and make up
If we fight and make up
If we fight we wake up lonely
This pillow talk, don’t wake me up
My dream is done, I’m still in love
I know your fears, Just lying here
I think I’ll leave, please don’t my dear
This pillow talk will wake me up no matter what I’m dreaming
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Bio: Wild Child, indie-folk pop band from Austin, Texas, began as an acoustic duo consisting of Kelsey Wilson and Alexander Beggins singing ukulele love songs written and shared over red wine and old photographs. The two met for the first time just three days prior to a six-week tour with a Scandinavian band and instantly became enamored with their new life on the road. With northern U.S. parks and fields as their backdrop and a tour van as their practice studio, Kelsey and Alexander formed their first ten songs, flawlessly documenting the ups and downs of a less than idealistic yet enchanting romance. Wild Child has evolved since then into a six-piece band, accenting the soulful vocals and folk-influenced instrumentation with lush strings, keys, bells, banjo and percussion.
After returning from the tour in November of 2010 and recording lo-fi demos of their songs on an old 8-track recorder, Kelsey and Alexander spent the next few months working on pre-production with the help of Anthony Erickson of Eye in the Sky Collective. San Francisco producers Evan Magers and Alex Peterson traveled to Austin at the beginning of March 2011 to begin recording the full-length album. Following a month of rehearsing, recording, and making their SXSW debut, Kelsey, Alexander, Evan and Alex returned to San Francisco to finish tracking the album and spent the subsequent months mixing at Major Nation Studio in Austin.
In the midst of the recording process and in anticipation of their SXSW debut, Wild Child added drummer Carey McGraw, cellist Sadie Wolfe, keyboardist Evan Magers, and multi-instrumentalist Matthew Mares to inject their own unique influences and playing styles into the mix. Wild Child has fostered their growing reputation by performing regularly at venues and festivals throughout central Texas, including Emo’s, the Texas Music Theater, Wild Frontier Fest, and Art Disaster 13.
Mastered by Grammy-winning engineer Erik Wofford, Wild Child’s debut album, “Pillow Talk,” features 15 tracks comprised of gorgeous harmonies, tempered rhythms and conflicted lyrics about love and loss. Ranging from the dazed and nostalgic “Silly Things” to the waltzy and wishful “I’ll Figure You Out,” the songs tell a rich tale of inconvenient matters of the heart with an irreverent, playful innocence that wanders in and out of reality and fantasy. From the somber and sweet “Darling Divine” to the rambunctiously infectious “Cocaine Hurricane,” the chemistry between Kelsey and Alexander is palpable and unique—sweet and youthful on the surface, but frenzied, unruly and fiercely honest underneath.
Wild Child will continue to perform throughout the region in support of their debut album “Pillow Talk,” which will be released on October 25, 2011, with plans to begin touring nationally in early 2012.
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“Cocaine Hurricane”
Lyrics:
Cocaine hurricane forgot to pay the bills
Twenty bucks well that’s enough for a coupe cheap thrills
Whiskey shot, I’d rather not, I already forgot your name
Back of the bar, it’s not that far, you already no this game
When you go, don’t wake me up, don’t even give me a shake
Girls like you and guys like me we only make mistakes
And I’m just hoping that this world, this world is gonna end
Ain’t got no plan now no, no job, no money to spend
I’m feeling sick, I’m feeling tired, just wantin’ to go home
I lost my shoe, no thanks to you, your welcome for the bone
Dirty hair, smell like beer, I need to wash my clothes
I’m hoping the stranger I met last night can’t reach me on the phone
A cup of joe, on the go, pop a couple pills
Early flight, ain’t sleep all night
This headache nearly kills
And I’m just hoping that this world, this world is gonna end
Ain’t got no plan now, no job, no money to spend
When I arrived, I caught a cab, just trying to get home
Lost my wallet, lost my bag, can’t even find my phone
Dropped me off, a couple of blocks, from anywhere I’ve seen before
Can’t catch a break, from any place, I’m sleepin’ on the floor
Find a stoop to rest my head, just somewhere to lay down
Lost my shoe because of you, and now I’m on the ground
And I’m just hoping that, this world, this world’s gonna end
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