The palette that North Highlands paints on Wild One mostly resides on a muted spectrum with flights of bright colors. The record feels like the soundtrack to the slight transition period between summer and fall as the last embers of the warm season burn and give way to brisk, chilled days, but the songs have sprung from another type of shift – the growing pains of post-college life. The songs exude a youthful vivacity but also inherit an uncontainable restlessness. – Our writer Nancy Chow interviewed the band’s front woman Brenda Malvini, read the feature here or on the pdf file of our latest print issue here.