The Arcadian Wild – Make It Out Alive
Nashville-based folk/pop trio The Arcadian Wild have released their new album Make It Out Alive.
Their fourth and most enthralling album yet, Make It Out Alive is a celebration of hope, love, and joy in the face of overcoming personal loss and emotional upheaval. Having now surpassed the ten year marker as a band, it also finds the trio in the midst of a creative reformation, as they co-wrote all the songs collectively for the first time, as well as worked with an outside producer for the first time.
“A lot has happened in between our previous record and Make It Out Alive, and I think what we created feels pretty distinct from what we’ve done in the past, and yet in many ways, it’s the most like ourselves that we’ve ever felt,” stated mandolinist/vocalist Lincoln Mick. “There’s still some ambition baked into the music, but there’s also a sense of settledness, a relaxing into a shared trust of one another, the process, and the audience. We’re just really proud of it, and of all of the people that we got to make it with.”
The Arcadian Wild will hit the road this fall for their US headline tour in support of the new album, which includes stops in Iowa City, Minneapolis, Chicago, Asheville, Atlanta, and more.
The trio first began teasing the new album this spring with “Comes Around Again.” It was followed by “Cool To Know You,” which was hailed by The Bluegrass Situation as “Poppy and lush, its deep and vibey production style brings in varied roots influences reminding of Nickel Creek and indie-pop all at the same time, held together with a bluegrassy mandolin chop.” Additional highlights include the direct and unfiltered “See It To Believe It” as well as “Spinnin’,” which MAGNET called “a striking testament to personal growth’s inability to follow a straight line, arriving through cycles of disappointment and fulfillment, loss and renewal.”
Recorded in Nashville with producer/mixer Micah Tawlks (Judah & The Lion, The Brook & The Bluff), Make It Out Alive transforms the ache of loss into a stunning work of resilience and gratitude, one rooted in a profound appreciation for the fragile humanity that binds us all in this life and beyond. The recordings are lush and expansive, stepping beyond the limitations of live performance to craft an immersive, densely layered soundscape that blurs the lines between folk, country, bluegrass, choral, and pop music. The result is an album that embraces our mortality as a gift, a cathartic, deeply personal reckoning with life’s impermanence that learns to find purpose and meaning in sorrow and mourning.
The songs here are more collaborative than ever before, with guitarist/vocalist Isaac Horn, fiddler/vocalist Bailey Warren, and Mick co-writing together for the first time. The altered writing process would ultimately open a whole new side to the band’s sound. Leaning on each other came naturally for the trio, who supported one another both personally and artistically as they explored a series of painful personal losses together in the writing process. Horn tapped into the sadness surrounding the sudden passing of his grandmother; Mick faced down the emotional maelstrom he and his wife experienced after a miscarriage preceded the eventual birth of their daughter; and Warren beautifully reckoned with the lingering absence of her late mother (while simultaneously paying tribute to the steadfastness of her father).
“This is the first time I’m bringing my stories and perspectives to an Arcadian Wild album and merging my songwriting style with Lincoln’s and Isaac’s,” Warren reflects. “They’ve been doing this together for over a decade and I’ve joined them for the last six and a half years, and we are only just now starting to co-write together. I don’t know what took us so long, but not-surprisingly we write very well together. Now more than ever these songs feel wholly ours, which gives the record a new kind of cohesion that’s less about any of us individually and more about the group as a collective.”
Tour Dates:
08/28 – Colorado Springs, CO @ Lulu’s Downtown
08/29 – Bellevue, CO @ Mishawaka Amphitheatre (w/ Tophouse)
09/19 – Pittsburgh, PA @ FestPGH
10/03 – Nashville, TN @ Wild Bison Music & Arts Festival
10/22 – Bloomington, IL @ The Castle Theatre
10/23 – Iowa City, IA @ Wildwood Smokehouse & Saloon
10/24 – Stoughton, WI @ Stoughton Opera House
10/25 – Minneapolis, MN @ The Parkway Theater
10/27 – Evanston, IL @ SPACE
10/29 – Johnson City, TN @ The Down Home
10/30 – Asheville, NC @ The Grey Eagles
11/01 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
11/02 – Charlotte, NC @ Neighborhood Theatre
11/03 – Greenville, SC @ The Radio Room
11/05 – Atlanta, GA @ Center Stage
11/06 – Birmingham, AL @ Woodlawn Theatre
11/07 – Chattanooga, TN @ Songbirds
11/11 – Miami, FL @ Moon River at Sea Cruise
11/20 – Nashville, TN @ Exit/In
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