Wild Love (album)

Wild Love
Studio album by Smog
Released	March 27, 1995 (1995-03-27)
Recorded	1994–1995
Genre	Lo-fi
Length	35:16
Label	Drag City
Producer	Rian Murphy
Smog chronology
Burning Kingdom (1994) Wild Love (1995) Kicking a Couple Around (1996)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Q	[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[3]

Wild Love is the fourth album by Bill Callahan (also known as Smog), released on March 27, 1995, on Drag City and re-released in Europe on Domino in 2001. Jim O'Rourke appeared as cellist on this album, his first collaboration with Smog. Drag City's producer Rian Murphy helped to develop a wider musical palette than its predecessor Julius Caesar.

Critical reception

Wild Love has attracted favorable critical reviews. In a retrospective biography of Smog, AllMusic's Jason Ankeny called the album "a triumph of abject failure", seeing that it "reflected [Callahan's] bitter obsessions with stunning clarity."[4]

Cat Power later covered "Bathysphere" on her 1996 album What Would the Community Think.

Track listing

All tracks written by Bill Callahan, except where noted.[5]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Bathysphere"		4:50
2.	"Wild Love"		1:35
3.	"Sweet Smog Children"		1:41
4.	"Bathroom Floor"	Callahan Cynthia Dall	1:55
5.	"The Emperor"		1:11
6.	"Limited Capacity"		1:18
7.	"It's Rough"		4:45
8.	"Sleepy Joe"	Callahan Dall	3:53
9.	"The Candle"		2:26
10.	"Be Hit"		2:23
11.	"Prince Alone in the Studio"	Callahan Dall	7:15
12.	"Goldfish Bowl"		2:00
Total length:			35:16

Personnel

• Bill Callahan – vocals, guitar, keyboards
• Cynthia Dall – guitar on tracks 8 and 11; vocals on track 11
• Jason Dezember – drums on track 10
• Ron Burns – drums on tracks 8, 11 and 12
• Ian O'Hey – Chamberlin on tracks 9 and 11
• Jim O'Rourke – cello on tracks 2, 4, 11 and 12
• Rian Murphy – production
• Konrad Strauss – engineering

References

1. Phares, Heather. "Wild Love – Smog". AllMusic. Retrieved May 7, 2020.
2. "Smog: Wild Love". Q. No. 176. May 2001. p. 137.
3. Sheffield, Rob (2004). "Smog". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 754–55. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
4. Ankeny, Jason. "Smog Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic. Retrieved August 15, 2023.
5. "Smog - Wild Love". Discogs. 1995.

External links

• Wild Love (album) at Discogs