The Wyld (formerly called ‘The Wild’) are to release their debut album ‘Preface’ on June 29th.

The album by the Auckland based hip-hop rock trio is to feature the singles ‘Revolution', ‘Full Circle', and ‘Rome'.

"Back in 2007, Joe Pascoe, a Kiwi guitarist with an encyclopaedic knowledge of classic rock music, met up with Sudanese poet-turned-rapper Mo Kheir, while the two were studying architecture at the University of Auckland. Fast forward to 2009 and the two started regularly attending a weekly electronic music jam night hosted by their friend Marty, now the producer to Jupiter Project. In attendance was an American keyboardist, beat maker and singer named Brandon Nigri.

Clicking through a shared sense of humour and musicality, the three started jamming out bedroom recordings which folded the vocal intimacy of indie acts like Bon Iver and The Black Keys onto a post Kanye West rap swagger, with a healthy dose of soundtrack cinematics, electronica and rock riffs underscoring all of the above."