Wilds

Description

Few artists tell stories with the skill and disarming observational acuity of Andy Shauf. The Toronto-based, Saskatchewan-bred musician’s songs unfold like short fiction: densely layered with colourful characters and rich emotional depth. As he’s done throughout his career, Shauf wrote, performed, arranged, and produced all of the songs on his new album “Wilds” in his studio in west Toronto. In barely a year and a half, Shauf wrote over 50 songs, and whittled that body of work down to one album, which became the much-acclaimed “The Neon Skyline” in 2020. His songs focus on one theme by intertwining the stories of the individual characters in a group of friends who have gathered for a night at the same local bar. “Wilds” includes songs from those same writing sessions, which did not fit into the storyline of Skyline and had their own singular identity outside of that album.