Wild Rivers Follow Never Better With Companion Album Better Now Ahead Of UK & Ireland Tour

by | Sep 7, 2024

Just three months after the release of their acclaimed album, Never Better, Platinum-selling trio Wild RiversKhalid Yassein, Devan Glover and Andrew Oliver—have announced a new companion album, Better Now, which drops on 18th October. Ahead of the release, new track, What Kind of Song, is out now. The new song comes ahead of their run of live dates in the UK & Ireland which kicks off on the 14th November in Glasgow and includes a stop at London’s at O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire on the 19th November.

Wild Rivers

Wild Rivers (Justin Broadbent)
Wild Rivers (Justin Broadbent)

Of the song, the band shares: “The idea of the song is this meta question: ‘when you sing this song in a few years, is it going to be a love song or a breakup song? Will you be missing them and the relationship you once had, or missing them when you’re still together but they aren’t home from work yet?’ There’s two ways that it goes that are completely different.”

Produced by Wild Rivers and Gabe Wax (Soccer Mommy, Adrienne Lenker), Better Now consists of eight tracks that complement Never Better, as the group dives deeper into the complicated, confusing and unknown realities of life in their twenties, and the personal growth they’ve found through it all.

Check out What Kind Of Song below:

Of the new project, Wild Rivers say: “Better Now is our companion record, and the other side to Never Better. On the first record, the songs contain raw, absolute and instinctual feelings. In many ways, Better Now is the afterglow of this. We’re reflecting and understanding that relationships change over time. Complicated situations can be just that, complicated. Feelings can remain unresolved. If the first record is bright and bold, this one is the softer gradients in between; the sunrises and the sunsets. Both projects makeup the full spectrum of who we are. Better Now is just the moodier, misunderstood one. Musically the records really are twins. We wrote all of the songs at the same time. Finishing Better Now, we really felt that it was the close of a massive musical and personal chapter. It’s bittersweet but so meaningful to be able to chronicle our lives between these projects. Ultimately, we are optimistic; ‘better now,’ after the ups and downs of the relationships and turbulence of our twenties. Hopefully we’re wiser for it.”

In celebration of the new music, Wild Rivers will perform on “CBS Saturday Morning” on 7th September as part of their “Saturday Sessions” series and will continue to tour throughout the autumn with their international headline tour.

Formed during their time at Queen’s University in Ontario, Wild Rivers have released three albums to date including 2022’s Sidelines, which landed at #9 on the U.S. Spotify Debut Album Chart. Released to critical acclaim. Following the release of Sidelines, the group were nominated for Breakthrough Group Of The Year at the 2023 JUNO Awards, saw their breakout single, Thinking ‘Bout Love, certified Gold in the United States and Australia and Platinum in Canada, and garnered over 850 million global streams. The group also spent much of their career touring across the world including countless headline shows as well as dates supporting artist such as The Chicks and Noah Kahan.

Upcoming UK & Ireland tour dates with special guest Riley Pearce:

NOVEMBER
15th – Dublin – Button Factory
17th – Bristol – SWX
19th – London – O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
22nd – Manchester – Manchester Academy
24th – Birmingham – O2 Institute
26th – Leeds – Project House
27th – Cardiff – Tramshed

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