★★★★★
Pussy said to the Owl "You elegant fowl, How charmingly sweet you sing. O let us be married, too long we have tarried; But what shall we do for a ring?" --From the Owl and the Pussycat, by Edward Lear There is an excellent new record released early in October (The Noise Company) by the Austin-based group Wild Child called The Runaround...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-11-13
★★★★★
This Austin folk duo that walked away with Best Indie Act and Best Folk Act at 2013's Austin Music Awards gets assistance on their sophomore effort. Fan Ben Kweller steps in to add instrumentation that fattens the sound. He expands their once limited palette that remains based on ukulele and violin to now include bass, drums, keys and cello. He also tones down some of the cutesiness inherent in their approach and crafts these songs with fascinating arrangements and often unexpected sonic twists...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-10-09
★★★★★
Wild Child's debut LP spills unabashed folk-pop plucked and plied with a willful and necessarily naive lilt. As the LP spools and unravels the threads of youthful love, core duo Kelsey Wilson and Alexander Beggins sow even the lowest moments of romance with an intimate and idealistic flair that, if not innocent, bends toward brighter boundaries...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2011-12-26
★★★★★
The name itself implies a spontaneity of thought and action. As a member of the underground group Lootpack, Wildchild's rap style lived up to that credo with a flow that spilled all over fat beats with reckless abandon. Child comes from that school of rap thought that completing a rhyme or thought is more important that fitting every phrase into one bar of the songs. In other words, beats are like locked doors to Wolverine: just slash through anything that gets in your way...
- rapreviews.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
If you ask Las Vegas MC Wildchild, patience is a virtue. After putting in work with his group The Lootpack since 1998, he released his debut LP, Secondary Protocol, in 2003. Despite the disc's critical acclaim, he disappeared until fall 2004, now returning with a new moniker and an EP similarly named?The Jackal...
- rapreviews.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
After years of playing second-fiddle to the mainstream, underground hip-hop is finally making serious waves...
- pitchfork.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Okay, kids, let's take a sec to think back. Back to a time before Jigga hawked Vodka and Jeru pumped Mystic. When A 'n' Fitch models with frosted Caesars couldn't Cripwalk and Scott La Rock's death was a tragedy. I remember the time well. I played with eight-bit Italian brothers every afternoon and could've pulled any girl in the third grade if only I had those Air Jordans from the Def Jef video. Of course my parents didn't understand. Mom said, "You're only nine, you don't have a rep yet...
- www.prefixmag.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
After years of playing second-fiddle to the mainstream, underground hip-hop is finally making serious waves...
- www.pitchforkmedia.com
2009-03-23