Wild Moccasins - Skin Collision Past (2011)

Houston, Texas band founded in 2007.

Do yourself a favor. Search Wild Moccasins on YouTube or Flickr or any similar website. You will find a youthful quintet from Houston, Texas (America’s 4th largest city) utterly overjoyed by performing. You will then notice the fans, exuberant Millennials smiling ear-to-ear, absolutely euphoric over what they see onstage. In an era in which the blogosphere often selects the next big thing out of thin air, Wild Moccasins bolsters its name the old-fashioned way: playing live. Persistence and hard work have helped the band build a feverish local base in its hometown one individual at a time. Now, Houstonians are hard pressed to squeeze into one of Wild Moccasins’ regularly sold-out, enthusiastic live performances.

The charming full length features nine songs of pop bliss, highlighted by the female/male vocal pairings of Zahira Gutierrez and Cody Swann. As a bonus, the deluxe CD version of the album includes the original EP, Microscopic Metronomes. In 2009, it won “Best EP” in the Houston Press Music Awards.