London based alt-rock quartet Wildernesses have announced their debut album Growth, set for release on 27th March via Floodlit Recordings. Rooted in modern folk storytelling and shaped by lived experience, the band’s music inhabits the space between shoegaze glow, post-rock scale and intimate, emotionally led songwriting. Alongside the announcement, Wildernesses share new single ‘Maintenance’, a shimmering, quietly unsettling meditation on routine, survival and the strange, everyday rituals we adopt to keep ourselves upright in a fractured world.

‘Maintenance’ arrives with a striking video shot by Joey Aitchison of JWA Creationsat the Cooperage, Brick Lane, London. The concept celebrates freedom of expression, showing the band performing behind oversized, handmade collage masks of their own faces. Designed and constructed by vocalist Phillip Morris from blown-up photographs, cut, layered and reassembled into sculptural forms, the eyeless masks strip away the idea of identity and vanity in equal measure. 

Vocalist Phillip Morris comments on the new single: “‘Maintenance’ lives in the small, repetitive habits of day-to-day life – the odd things you do to feel okay. Lyrically it’s tongue-in-cheek and self-aware and that unease bled into the artwork and video with these collage masks and ‘eyeless’ faces mirroring the song’s warped perspective.”

Catch Wildernesses live: 

Jan 31 – London @ Folklore (supporting World Coda)
Feb 8 – London, Celestial Diadem Weekender @ 229
Mar 18 – Hull @ Divehu5
Mar 19 – Leeds @ Opporto
Mar 20 – Nottingham @ JT Soar
Mar 21 – Manchester @ Old Pint Pot
Mar 22 –  Birmingham @ Dead Wax
|Mar 24 – Bristol @ Exchange
Mar 25 – Cardiff @ Fuel
Mar 26 – Brighton @ Rossi
Mar 27 – London @ Folklore