Wildes – announces new album ‘All We Do Is Feel’ with new single and video

London-based singer-songwriter WILDES (Ella Walker) has announced the release of her second album ‘All We Do Is Feel’ on 12th September.

Having recently shared first single ‘Wipe Away The Tears’ feat. Tonguetied, today she releases new track ‘All I Get‘. 

She explains: “Writing ‘All I Get’ really took me on a path I wasn’t expecting, both in its messaging and how the production emerged. It was a liberating song to write – I had spent months musing on how little I had, how so much had been taken from me emotionally, leaving me feeling bereft – but I realised in writing it, that ‘all’ I had left was in fact abundant and rich. Left in the wake of that break-up was evidence that I had really lived and loved, I had received so much support from those around me, and I had made it through a transformative period that pushed me into becoming a better person. This song makes me feel like a living thing”.

When moments slip through our fingers and no feeling is final, WILDES’ returning album is a monument to the love which remains. ‘All We Do Is Feel‘ marks Ella’s reinvention: a kind of radiance that can only be earned when everything – your life and your art – is razed to the ground and built again in faith to a new vision. The story that unfolds across All We Do Is Feel is one which we all recognise: one of love, heartbreak and renewal. But when we are lost in the arctic-white of emotion, when everything is at its most bitter and unending, WILDES will take you by the hand and walk you out of the storm.

Co-produced with her best friend Elena Garcia (Tonguetied), the album was recorded in Garcia’s childhood home, and the music is completely unguarded and fearless in the face of experimentation.

It was Garcia who would introduce WILDES to EDM, which pulses throughout the album in subtle ways. She was fascinated by the quality of escapism which is so unique to electronic music, and through exposure to the likes of Boards of Canada, Sylvan Esso and Samia, the production – which they shared equally – is infused with this glow. There are almost no organic instruments on the album. “Sometimes, electronic music can be more heart-wrenching to me than a guitar,” WILDES notes, which marks a total transformation of her sound. As a project which is far more DIY than its predecessors, the limitations are exactly what liberated her; when before, she’d surgically remove those touches which made her music human and vulnerable, now she embraces those distinctions and often kept the first vocal take so as not to disturb that first bolt of magic.