Wild Love (album)
Wild Love is the fourth album by Bill Callahan, 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 bitter obsessions with stunning clarity."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.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