The Icarus Line Wildlife

• King Baby
• We Sick
• Soul Slave
• It's Alright (f. Annie Hardy of Giant Drag)
• Venomous
• No Lord
• Bad Bloods
• Sin Man Sick Blues
• We Want More (f. Ariel Pink)
• All The Little Things
• Tina Turner
• Like A Scab
• Wildlife
• Elephants of Armageddon (Vinyl Bonus Track)

Following the release of a pair of EPs in 1998, L.A. scuzz-rockers the Icarus Line officially debuted in 2001 with Mono. And in the ensuing years, the Joe Cardamone-led band would go on to release a slew of singles, EPs, and albums leading up to 2011's Wildlife. It's their first in four years, though it was written over the course of two years by Cardamone. He began piecing the album together following a move back to his hometown of East L.A., where he and the Icarus Line churned out 20 songs. Cardamone has said the resulting effort, Wildlife, sounds like a debut of a new band influenced by Iggy Pop, Roxy Music, and Funkadelic. He further said that “if you love rock n' roll music that is actually made by motivated fuck ups who had no other choice, then [Wildlife] is for you.”

Abstract by Andrew Martin