We should always be rooting for the underdog indie rockers who bat for the fences in whatever they can do to reach their sound out to sky, but just as rewarding is when they learn it’s better to let go of all those big stage ambitions and roll loose instead. That’s where “The Fences of Stonehenge”, the first single and self-professed mission statement from Dulling the Horns, Wild Pink’s new album and first for new label home, Fire Talk, lands upon grounding the vehicle of New York City songwriter John Ross. After spending some years searching the alt-country borealis and existential folk cosmos with his previous efforts, Ross is pondering life’s seasons through a fussier, unkempt corner of the band’s sound that leads with instinct rather than doling in perfectionism with immaculate flourishes. “Made a life out of a detour,” he sings. It turns out that was the right turn all along…

Wild Pink’s Dulling the Horns will be released October 4th on Fire Talk.