Wild Rivers - Better Now (2024) Hi-Res

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 make up 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. We co-produced both albums with Gabe Wax. Recording in makeshift studios between Joshua Tree and Los Angeles, California, we trusted our instincts and wanted songs to feel immediate and alive. 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.

The ideas on Better Now are more somber, and we’re less afraid to explore the darker sides of ourselves. 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.