WILL WOOD NEEDS TO TELL YOU SOMETHING
NEW YORK | MARCH 2022: The American singer-songwriter, filmmaker, and multimedia artist, Will Wood has announced that his long-awaited album with the working title In Case I Make It is to be released starting with the first single dropping on Friday, April 15th, 2022. Wood will be releasing a total of 5 singles and 5 music videos over the next 4 months, culminating with the complete album which will be released on Friday, July 29th. To support the upcoming music and video releases, Will Wood is touring in US cities starting March 31 through May 8th with the full list of dates found HERE.
With an incredibly loyal and sometimes fanatic fanbase of 800k monthly listeners, Will notes that the genre and sound of the music that he has been developing is far different from previous releases. In Case I Make It is an album created by an artist more grounded and one coming to terms with his ever-evolving, authentic self. If we were to classify his upcoming music, the niche genre of chamber pop comes to mind, as does indie-folk and singer-songwriter, with artists such as Father John Misty and Andrew Bird as his main influences.
Will Wood is reclusive. Mysterious. Frightened. And he wants to tell you something before you hear his new music:
“After suddenly getting way more attention than I can handle while we were all trapped indoors being intentionally warped by corporate A.I. systems, I entered this weird state where I thought I was going to die. I developed some sort of sleep disorder and ridiculous paranoid obsessions and would beat my head with closed fists on the kitchen floor, trapped in a collapsing rental subsisting off rice and sleeping on a mattress on the floor by a cage full of dying rats. All while random strangers started acting real scary toward me, and echo chamber Daleks insisted I be their “content creator” or a character I only ever seemed like because of how much sicker I had been in the past. My psychiatrist gave me some harsh antipsychotics and told me “call me if they make you grow tits and die in your sleep.” Which all solidified my belief that I wasn’t going to make it much longer.”
“So I decided I needed to put out a collection of some of the songs I had written since I started treatment; songs that showed the actual human being I was underneath the grandiosity of the persona I had built or that had been built for me. I needed to get something out in case I didn’t make it. That’s what this album is. Songs from my personal life, dedicated more to expressing the day-to-day thoughts and feelings of the deeply flawed and unimportant little man I am than to big philosophical statements and attempts at impressing with wordplay and piano solos. Songs meant to reach out to the people out there who really feel like I do and tell them what I really mean when I say “you’re not alone.” Songs that, instead of trying to be larger than life, recognize how large life is.”
“So you know, songs about breakups, and dead rats.” – WW
ABOUT: Will Wood is an American singer-songwriter, multi-media artist, and filmmaker known for his live performances and feature film The Real Will Wood. Wood has released numerous singles and three studio albums: Everything Is A Lot, in 2015; Self-Ish (stylized as SELF-iSH), in 2016, The Normal Album in 2020, and the forthcoming (working title) In Case I Make It to be released in the spring/summer of 2022. Will has also composed music for the podcast Camp Here and There released in 2021.
Will Wood has consistently been open about his past struggles with addiction and mental illness, having entered recovery early in his career and later being diagnosed with Bipolar disorder. Wood donates portions of his income to various mental health charities, including the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, saying, “I’ve gotten a lot better. I want to try and do something to help others get there.”
PRESS:
“Avant-pop musician Will Wood is an artist of the highest caliber. He defies expectations by mixing genres — show tunes, jazz, cabaret and a serious amount of rock & roll — into a truly unique and original sound.”
“When it comes to merging dense arrangements, memorable melodies, and playfully over-the-top showmanship, few modern musicians can match NJ avant-pop/theatrical rock artist Will Wood. Merging the singer-songwriter creativity of Rufus Wainwright with the wacky energy and intricacy of the Diablo Swing Orchestra, Wood’s latest work is as richly crafted as it is delightfully zany.”
