It feels like I’ve been waiting forever to share “Wild Mind,” the latest single from indie pop trio Pacific, with you. In truth I only heard it a little more than a month ago on one of those advance streams, but it feels like I’ve known this song a lot longer. It’s just got that wonderfully familiar feel about it, with its infectious hooks and epic vocals. It’s everything I’ve loved about Pacific’s past releases, but dare I say it just a little bit better?
“I think Wild Mind is a song that everyone can relate to,” the band said in a press release. “Every day when you turn on the radio or scroll through your newsfeed, you’re just bombarded with issues that make the world seem like a terrible place. For me, I feel like it gets to a point where you need to take things into your own hands and play your little part to make the world around you a little less dark.”
So crank this one up and remember that no matter how bleak things seem, there is always some good if you look in the right places.
“We wanted this song to sound and feel different to anything we’ve written before,” Callum Byrne explained in a press release. “Darkness is the absence of light, and I feel like it’s a place where we are stretched and refined. With dawn being the first appearance of light, it breathes change. We wanted to try and reflect this sentiment both musically and lyrically throughout the song.”
I love coming across music that sparks something in me, songs that I have an instant connection with. Just one song won’t do. I need to hear more and get a more complete sense of who that artist is. So after listening to “Edge of Nowhere,” I had to fire up the advance stream of Pacific’s self-titled EP. In just five tracks I learned that these guys are certainly the real deal.