Chinatown
Track 10 of Gemini, one of Wild Nothing's best-known songs.
Wild Nothing, from Gemini (2010)
Tatum wrote it and made one video for it; Interview magazine notes that fan-made videos often feature little kids, and Tatum links the song's nostalgic feel to a longing for innocence. Pitchfork ranked it 73rd on its list of the best tracks of 2010. Search summaries of two Drowned in Sound interviews say Tatum mentioned one sample in the song and found it hard to play live because of it; both pages returned 404, so we cannot confirm that or identify the sample.
Setlist.fm ranks it sixth among their most played songs, at 114 performances. Recent sets have it tenth, after "The Witching Hour" and before "Our Composition Book", as at the Hollywood Theatre in Vancouver on May 13, 2026, and it was played at the 9:30 Club on November 18, 2018. We found no statement on the lyrics' meaning.
On stage
- 2018-11-18, 9:30 Club, Washington, D.C. On the Indigo tour.
- 2026-05-13, Hollywood Theatre, Vancouver The Gemini tour.
Sources
- Gemini (Wild Nothing album), Wikipedia
- Wild Nothing, Interview (2010-10-06)
- Wild Nothing song statistics, setlist.fm
- Jack Tatum of Wild Nothing, PopMatters (2013-01-09)