Wild Rivers have released their new album Better Now ahead of a run of UK tour dates including a Manchester gig.
The trio will headline at Manchester Academy in November with support from Riley Pearce. The Manchester gig is one of eight UK and Ireland dates they are set to headline.
New album Better Now has landed just three months after their previous long player Never Better. The new release marks an 8-track companion album produced by Wild Rivers alongside Gabe Wax. Better Now finds Wild Rivers diving into the complicated realities of life in their twenties alongside the accompanying confusion and potential unknowns. It also takes in the personal growth that has brought with it.
Speaking about the album Wild Rivers said, “Better Now is our companion record, and the other side to Never Better. On the first record, the songs contain raw, absolute and instinctual feelings. In many ways, Better Now is the afterglow of this. We’re reflecting and understanding that relationships change over time. Complicated situations can be just that, complicated. Feelings can remain unresolved. If the first record is bright and bold, this one is the softer gradients in between; the sunrises and the sunsets. Both projects make up the full spectrum of who we are. Better Now is just the moodier, misunderstood one. Musically the records really are twins. We wrote all of the songs at the same time. Finishing Better Now, we really felt that it was the close of a massive musical and personal chapter. It’s bittersweet but so meaningful to be able to chronicle our lives between these projects. Ultimately, we are optimistic; ‘better now,’ after the ups and downs of the relationships and turbulence of our twenties. Hopefully we’re wiser for it.”
When do Wild Rivers headline at Manchester Academy?
Wild Rivers headline at Manchester Academy on 22 November 2024. The Manchester gig is one of eight UK and Ireland dates they will play:
13 November – Glasgow, QMU (SOLD OUT)
15 November – Dublin, Button Factory (SOLD OUT)
17 November – Bristol, SWX
19 November – London, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
22 November – Manchester, Manchester Academy
24 November – Birmingham, O2 Institute
26 November – Leeds, Project House
27 November – Cardiff, Tramshed
