Andy Shauf - Wilds co-op is just the beginning

is just the beginning

a grand album of emotional resonance and narrative drama

A Dry-erase hex map of 100 blank hexes

from the swampy Chicago blues number "Final Days" (featuring fiery harmonica from Grammy Award-nominated singer and Wet Willie frontman Jimmy Hall) to a timely rendition of John Lennon's still-relevant "Gimme Some Truth"

Andy Shauf - Wilds co-op is just the beginningFew artists are storytellers as deft and disarmingly observational as Andy Shauf. The Toronto based, Saskatchewan raised musician's songs unfold like short fiction: they're densely layered with colorful characters and a rich emotional depth. Like he's done throughout his career, Shauf wrote, performed, arranged, and produced every song on his new album Wilds at his studio space in the west end of Toronto. Over the course of a year and a half, Shauf