Wild Rivers, Eight-Eight Review

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Wild Rivers is a four-piece folk-pop band from Toronto, Canada that immerse pop flavored melodies with folk forms and sonics to create an enjoyable musical style. Comprised of vocalists Khalid Yassein and Devan Glover, who also plays guitar with Andrew Oliver also on guitar and bass and Ben Labenski on drums. The band’s latest project is an EP called, Eight-Eight, which was conceived, written and recorded in Nashville and Ontario. The male and female harmonies are wonderful and with over 20 million streams on Spotify, the populous obviously agrees. Throughout Eight-Eight Wild Rivers naturally blend beautiful vocal harmonies, solid songwriting, and captivating lyrics. The music is positive and has a nice variety of feels and vocal colors for a short five song EP. That’s the short of it!

Positives:

Beautiful vocals, harmonies and when vocalists Yassein and Glover separate their vocals for the verses and then blend together for the choruses, it brings a nice variety and depth to the music.

Bottom Line:

Wild Rivers’ Eight-Eight is an EP that features a beautifully conceived female/male vocal duo that sounds magnificent when singing harmony but does not fall short by any measure when singing individually. There is tasty lead guitar work by Oliver, with just the right amount of energy and grit to match the acoustic focus of the project. The songs flow in structure and have lyrics that engage and tell a story. The band has a distinctive folk-pop sound with hints of rock and country that is an enticing blend for the ears, heart and mind.

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