Wild Nothing

A bedroom in Blacksburg

Wild Nothing is the project of Jack Tatum, born June 10, 1988, who writes, records and performs the studio music alone; the touring act is a full band. He learned guitar from his father, studied communications at Virginia Tech, played in a few bands including Jack and the Whale and FACEPAINT, and began recording as Wild Nothing in summer 2009, with the singles "Summer Holiday" and a Kate Bush "Cloudbusting" cover.

Gemini (May 25, 2010, Captured Tracks) took about six months to write and record, starting in the summer while Tatum was a student and finishing in December, in his off-campus bedroom on a laptop, he told Interview magazine. The Evertide EP followed in June 2010 and Golden Haze in October. Nocturne (August 28, 2012) debuted at number 1 on Billboard's New Artist chart and was a Pitchfork Best New Music; Tatum wrote it while living in Savannah, Georgia. Empty Estate (May 2013), Life of Pause (February 19, 2016), Indigo (August 31, 2018), Laughing Gas (February 2020) and Hold (October 27, 2023) followed, and he has produced and written for Japanese Breakfast and Molly Burch. Wild Nothing appears in the shoegaze documentary Beautiful Noise (2015).

Setlist.fm counts 442 setlists, busiest in 2012 (65), 2019 and 2010 (61 each), and a 2026 tour named Gemini.