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LONDON - AN INTERNSHIP BECOMES DESOLATION WILDERNESS

Desolation Wilderness are a three-piece from Olympia, Washington, who make dreamy, ambient Americana, drenched in a ton of echo and reverb. Their new record,

White Light Strobing

, is perfect for the long summer nights ahead of us. I caught up with singer Nicolaas Vart for an interview.

Vice: How did Desolation Wilderness come about?
Nicolaas Vart: I interned at K Records and that was where the current incarnation of the band started. DW was actually a solo project of mine that started about three or four years ago, and it was really electronic and synthetic sort of ambient music, with a lot of samples. But then I started working at the K studio, and so the band became a lot less electronic and more of a live thing, with members other than myself, because I had the keys to the studio and was able to go in there whenever there wasn't another project going on and work on my own stuff.