Wild Pink's Still Coming Down Is a Towering, Hopeful Rock Record
Wild Pink’s John Ross has earned the right to sound hopeful. Still Coming Down, the band’s sixth album and first for Fire Talk Records, arrives as the follow-up to 2024’s cancer-recovery record Dulling the Horns, now reshaped by Ross’s transition into fatherhood. “I feel like I’ve found my voice on this record,” he told FLOOD Magazine, and across ten tracks that confidence is impossible to miss.
The Sonic Breakdown
The Production & Mix
The Low-End: Produced by Alex Farrar, the record layers harmonica, horns, keys, and pedal steel into arrangements that never feel cluttered — every added texture earns its spot. The Spatial Dynamics: Under the Radar described the band ambling “between anthemic sprawls and scratchy, infectious grooves, layered together into soaring arrangements,” and that push-pull between intimacy and scale defines the whole record.
Standout Performance
Ross’s songwriting is the real headline — what Under the Radar called “impressionistic vignettes” that land like “listening to the guy beside you at the bar ramble on, only for him to drop something surprisingly poignant.” That plainspoken-to-profound pivot happens constantly here, and it never once feels like a trick.
Track Highlights
⚡ “500 Is the New 250” digs into downtrodden characters and lost souls without ever tipping into melodrama, letting the arrangement carry the weight.
🌈 The record’s back half opens up into the widest, most pedal-steel-soaked arrangements Wild Pink have committed to tape.
FLOOD’s review put it best: this is the sound of someone standing in a field, arms open, finally facing the sun.