Sidelines [Exclusive Cream]

One of the main themes of Sidelines is presencethat elusive quality of being fully in the moment, rather than dreaming about the past or fretting about the future.

Fortunately for Wild Rivers, nothing promises presence like a locked-in performance. They intentionally built the album like a setlist with a flow of emotional highs and lows, but another analogy for the album might be a road trip. Take the first verse of the wistful, synth-washed Weatherman: Rolling down the window of the drivers seat / looking for a place to breathe, Glover sings, Knowing where Im at and where Im meant to be / Trying to close the space between. Wild Rivers dont claim to have the answers to their heady questions, but theyre not after answers. Theyre along for the ride, trying to figure out who they are and how to get there.

American Songwriter
Wild Rivers – Sidelines Review