Wyldest’s new EP Hitchhiker is out now via Hand In Hive, and we could not be more excited. Over the last few weeks, the band have been drip feeding us brilliant single after brilliant single, most recently ‘Hitchhiker’ and ‘-45’. Just to up the ante a little more, they’ve dropped ‘Island Gardens’, a blistering ballad which bears all our favourite Wyldest hallmarks: heady guitar loops, more reverb than you can shake a stick at, and Zoe Mead’s sumptuous vocal. Describing the thinking behind the track, Mead says: "Island Gardens represents the self within an environment – a reminder that perhaps you should enjoy the garden around you, but maintain that you are an island and you need to fulfil your own desires rather than fitting into the expectations of your surroundings.” Wise words indeed – check Spotify now to stream the whole EP, out now in its glorious entirety. -HM