Wild Cub is a

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band led by songwriter-composer Keegan DeWitt and multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Bullock. Its supporting members are drummer Dabney Morris, bassist Harry West, and keyboardist and synthesist Eric Wilson. Their song " Thunder Clatter" charted at No. 59 in the UK in August 2013.

History

Formation

Tired of life in

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, New York, DeWitt declined a promotion and instead resigned from his job in 2008 and moved to

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to concentrate on music. In a 2010 interview, DeWitt stated that he moved because "in Brooklyn, the price of living was such that you'd have to be working a full time job, and I found myself putting 50% effort into both that job and my music. Nashville allowed me to put 100% of my effort into music." For a number of years, he wrote film scores. He collaborated with director Aaron Katz on ''

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'', ''Cold Weather'', and ''Quiet City''. The last two were selected as ''

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'' Critics Picks. In Nashville, DeWitt met multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Bullock, who had previously collaborated with

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and Pico vs. Island Trees, and the two founded Wild Cub with Morris, West, and Wilson in early 2012.

''Youth''

The group's 13-song debut album ''Youth'' was self-released in January 2013 via

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; a deluxe version of the album with two new tracks was released on January 21, 2014, via Mom + Pop Music. Recorded in Bullock's home, it was well received in the UK and the US;

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called it "jubilant, '80s-inspired synth pop and infectious". The lead single, " Thunder Clatter", was given a positive review by AllMusic but did not chart until August 2013, after it was used in a

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commercial; it eventually reached number 59 on the

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Recent events

Wild Cub's remix of "Symptoms" by

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appeared on their 2013 remix album '' So Electric: When It Was Now (The Remixes)''. Wild Cub has performed at

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and other prominent festivals. In January 2014, they performed " Thunder Clatter" on ''

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'' and in April 2014 they performed on '' Conan''. In addition, they performed a version of "

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" in June 2014 for ''

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'' A.V. Undercover series. As of 2017, both Dewitt and Bullock transitioned to the film and TV industry as composers. Their original compositions appeared in 2017 ''Heart Beats Loud'' and 2018 '' Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story'', the latter which premiered at the

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. Bullock also composed an episode of the 2018 series, '' 7 Days Out,'' the entire score of the 2020

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'', which won both the Grand Jury and Audience Narrative Feature Competition Award at the 2022

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Discography

Studio albums

* ''Youth'' (2014) 01. Shapeless
02. Colour
03. Thunder Clatter
04. Straight No Turns
05. Wishing Well
06. The Water
07. Drive
08. Hidden in the Night
09. Jonti
10. Wild Light
11. Summer Fires / Hidden Spells
12. Streetlights
13. Windows
14. Blacktide
15. Lies * ''Closer'' (2017) 01. Magic
02. I Fall Over
03. Speak
04. Clicks
05. Wait
06. Somewhere
07. Mirror
08. Not With You
09. Fire
10. Rain
11. Go

References

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