Wild Party, Arms Akimbo, Silver & Gold

After a multi-year hiatus, the indie pop maestros, Wild Party, are set to release a new full-length album in 2024. After releasing their debut record, Phantom Pop, in October of 2014, the band toured extensively during the following year and a half before finally calling it quits at the end of 2015. While Phantom Pop’s infectious melodies and danceable grooves never found a home with a larger market in 2015, the band’s nearly decade-old release has recently found a new, devoted fan base online. “The Spotify algorithm seemed to suggest us to a lot of new fans who were listening to bands that sounded similar to us, and things really began to take off around 2018.” To date, the band has hundreds of millions of streams and a half a million monthly listeners on Spotify alone. A newly found fan-base reinvigorated Kreifels and long-time collaborator Lucas Hughes, and they began demoing songs again in 2018. However, it wasn’t until a close call landed Kreifels in the hospital in 2022 that spurred what he describes as a re-awakening. The band returned to playing live shows in 2023 with their first headline tours and sold out shows across the country. They’re touring across the US again in 2024 in celebration of the 10th Anniversary of their debut album Phantom Pop while also getting ready to release a new full-length album.