Wild Smiles: "Take Me Away"

Hampshire doesn’t have much road trip sex appeal. Something about the M3 service station and its rock hard Mars bars doesn’t quite scream Route 101 escapism. Yet, Winchester-based trio, Wild Smiles, have fashioned enough surf-rock-come-grunge brew for a VW camper van voyage to the west cost and back. “Take Me Away” is a froth of ramshackle chorus outcries and Californian-tinged guitaring fashioned like J Mascis and Mikey Love co-piloting us to some babe-laden spot on Newport beach.

Wild Smiles release the Take Me Away EP both digitally and on limited edition 12” white vinyl (500 copies) on July 8 via Invada Records.