Wild Guess is the inscrutable debut from Burlington, VT quartet Robber Robber. For all its nods to indie rock predecessors and the eclectic music scene that fed into it, Wild Guess feels more like an attempt to translate imagery into sound. "Post-punk, shoegaze, and krautrock are all part of [Robber Robber's] arsenal" (FADER), with each genre chopped and screwed to "conjur[e] images of drunken adventures turned alarming mysteries" (Pitchfork, Best Rock Albums of 2024). Everything is driven by sheer curiosity and loose creative parameters, and it's a chaos evident in what Robber Robber create. In even their most polarizing musical moments, you get the sense that these are gut reactions being expressed, that truth is the grist of the overflow. Recorded with Benny Yurco (Grace Potter) and Urian Hackney (The Armed, Rough Francis, Iggy Pop), Wild Guess presents the most fully-realized version of Robber Robber to-date. Capturing the tangible group dynamic Robber Robber have cultivated on-stage, WIld Guess elicits myriad responses, with many declaring: “This band is doing the Lord’s work” (Bandcamp).
