Wild Child (band)

Wild Child
Wild Child: Alexander Beggins, Kelsey Wilson, Sadie Wolfe perform at Emo's Austin
Background information
Origin	Austin, Texas
Genres	Indie pop
Years active	2010 – present
Labels	Dualtone Records, The Noise Company, Dine Alone Records
Associated acts	Ben Kweller, Shakey Graves
Website	www.wildchildsounds.com
Members	Kelsey Wilson, Alexander Beggins, Sadie Wolfe, Matt Bradshaw, Tom Myers.

Wild Child is an American indie pop band from Austin, Texas, United States. The band consists of Kelsey Wilson (lead vocals and violin), Alexander Beggins (lead vocals and baritone ukulele), Sadie Wolfe (cello), Matt Bradshaw (keyboard and trumpet), and Tom Myers (drums). They are managed by Pat Cassidy.

Wilson and Beggins met while touring as back-up musicians for a Danish indie act called The Migrant. They began writing songs together in the backseat of the tour van and found they worked very well as a songwriting team. Both had just been through the end of relationships, which provided both common ground and writing material. Beggins had brought a ukulele from his father's instrument collection simply because it was small enough to comfortably pass around in a van (Beggins played accordion with The Migrant). By the end of the tour the two had written several songs and began recording their first album upon their return to Austin. To complete the sound they were seeking, they called in other local musicians and friends to help record, which eventually became the full Wild Child band.

Behind their second album, The Runaround, the premiere release on Ben Kweller's Noise Company label, the Austin six piece earned NPR's Top Ten Songs of 2013 honors for the song "Living Tree," and saw five additional songs hit number 1 on Hype Machine's Popular chart. Their Spotify, Soundcloud, and YouTube streams have eclipsed ten million listens, and they have appeared on NPR's World Cafe and an airing of eTown Radio. The lead single from The Runaround, "Crazy Bird," debuted on Specialty Radio at number one fueled by a performance on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson.

The band has been hailed as one of the top acts in music-rich Austin since the release of debut album Pillow Talk; their mix of folk, pop, and gypsy melodies gives them a unique sound. Kelsey Wilson has "the voice of a Jazz Age Broadway baby.... all coos and hiccups and shivers." writes NPR. Among unanimously illustrious praise from the likes of Paste Magazine, Relix Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, Indie Shuffle, The Austin Chronicle, and American Songwriter, the Austin American-Statesman has anointed Wild Child as "Austin's next national breakout act".

Their self-recorded first album, the 15-track Pillow Talk, was released on October 25, 2011 (with help from San Francisco producers Evan Magers and Alex Peterson, and mastered by Erik Wofford). The album was received positively on many blogs and yielded a number one single on the music promotion site The Hype Machine.