Wyldest - ‘The Best Is Yet To Come’
Small, fragile, sweet and warm, Wyldest’s latest opens in such a manner that you just have to keep listening. ‘The Best Is Yet To Come’ is an intriguing piece, a warm piece of dream folk pop with beautiful vocals taking the spotlight.
Her latest is an expansive single with an ever-building soundscape that is driven by soft claps and a thumping rhythm sounding like the heartbeat of the song. Wyldest is known to friends and family as Zoe Mead, she is a singer and songwriter, composer and producer and shows off her versatile talents on her most recent LP, ‘Monthly Friend’. Her sound is a blend of several influences, taken from indie, pop, rock, and dreams being brought to life. Despite her music sounding light and effortless, it’s not always been easy for the self-sufficient artist. The process and release of her LP left her drained and at a loss for inspiration, which is when she started collaborating with Luciano Rossi to try and find a way out of her writer’s block. It adamantly inspired a new energy to come forth and resulted in the liberating sound we hear on ‘The Best Is Yet To Come’.
The song’s structure is an exciting one, making it listen like a short film with a simple intro driven by soft guitars and ballad-like vocals, erupting in a sound driven by electronic drums and blissful, cinematic compositions. About the song, Wyldest said: “This was written in the midst of isolation, friends and family were shuffling around moving away, changing. I chose to stay in the city, but could feel my world changing, disappearing in a way. However I suppose it was evolving into something different.”
“‘The Best is Yet to Come’ is about being hopeful that all the great things we had once are also mapped out in the future too, life is long and comes in multiple different chapters, it’s all part of the journey and we should never lose sight of the the present as things are constantly changing and evolving, so we can just sit back and enjoy the ride.”
Mead will be embarking on a headline tour with a band this September, translating her mesmerising recorded dream pop rock into a full on live set.
Words by Laura Rosierse
