It took Wilderness three years to complete their self-titled debut album. Spending that much time crafting a complex yet intriguing soundscape that has nothing to do with alternative rock, period, is not only beyond impressive, but also brilliant. It's smart in the sense that Wilderness maintain a stance away from the classic three-chord formula. They create their own post-punk-inspired shuffle without falling into the kitsch of their peers. Wilderness is led by the chaotic vocal warbling of frontman James Johnson, an obvious comparison to John Lydon's Public Image Ltd., but also an eerie vocal resemblance to Yan of British Sea Power, quickly establishes the band's disciplined approach. While the ten-song set is an elaborate adaptation of ominous guitars, thunderous drums, and sneaky basslines, Wilderness itself delivers a melancholic nervousness. Songs such as "Arkless," the blighted hopes of "End of Freedom," and the slow burn of "Fly Farther to See" press hard in such a vein. Some could have lost scope of an album's natural psyche with taking such an extensive ...

It took Wilderness three years to complete their self-titled debut album. Spending that much time crafting a complex yet intriguing soundscape that has nothing to do with alternative rock, period, is not only beyond impressive, but also brilliant. It's smart ...

On its second full-length album, Baltimore's droney post-punk ensemble Wilderness offers up another set of songs marked by stark, cavernous sonic landscapes inhabited by twisting guitar lines and deceptively simple rhythmic patterns. As on the self-titled debut, frontman James Johnson's ...

This Baltimore group exists in a musical space befitting their name, straddling a line between raw post-punk and a more contemporary dalliance with post-rock soundscapes. On (K)NO(W)HERE, their captivating vocalist James Johnson leads them through an invigorating set of slow ...

Track Listing of songs: Marginal Over; Arkless; It's All the Same; End of Freedom; Post Plethoric Rhetoric; Fly Further To See; Your Hands; Shepherd In Sheeps Clothing; Say Can You See; Mirrored Palm;

Track Listing of songs: Living Through; Part Ways;

Track Listing of songs: We Are Real; Queen of the Future; Molly G; Millennium Man; Golly Gee;