Current Joys shares WILDFIRE, a second single from the album ROSEBUD

Current Joys has released "WILDFIRE", the second preview of the album ROSEBUD, which is out on November 6 through They Are Evil.

The song follows the lead single "HOLE" and arrived in the middle of a sold-out UK tour. Nick Rattigan, the artist behind the project, tied it to a specific stretch of his life. He said he wrote "WILDFIRE" at a time when everything felt like it was collapsing, after a few years of self destruction that he was only starting to come out of.

The video, directed by Justin Kaminuma, changed that ending. Rattigan said he had always pictured himself in a burning house embracing the flames, and that Kaminuma pushed for something more optimistic, convincing him to reach a hand towards the door in the final scene. He described himself as being at a point where he is starting to believe in the reach.

That is a fairly direct account of what the record is doing, and it puts ROSEBUD closer to a recovery album than a wreckage one. The two songs released so far both come from the same period without landing in the same place.

Current Joys has built an audience over a decade of releases that sit between lo-fi bedroom recording and something bigger, and the sold-out UK dates suggest that audience has kept growing quietly rather than through any single breakout.

The album follows the announcement in which Current Joys shared HOLE and confirmed ROSEBUD, and now sits on the release calendar as one of November's indie and rock releases.