Safe Places’ “Wild Ride” is a Pure Blast of Romantic Sound

Here’s a group we don’t know much about, except that they dropped this solid track of pretty shoegaze in our inbox. "It’s a crime to call you mine," sing Safe Places in this cute track with a thrilling, screaming wall of sound backing its punkish vocals. There’s something youthful and a bit thrilling in a wistful, looking at kids doing the young in love thing kind-of way about this track, and you get the sense that these kids are a bit wrapped up in their own adventures, but for once it’s simply endearing. The song’s a nice little encapsulation of a feeling and a mood that blasts the same hard, solid and pretty sound from the first seconds to the last, which fits a good art punkish pretty song just fine, and we’d damn well like to hear more about this band.