From the vastly under-rated "My Medicine" LP, "Understand" is the third single - and the one that frankly begs for 45RPM fisticuffs - from the mothership and is WILT'S most direct and unadorned pop moment yet.
Kicking off with a rush of crystalline guitars and Darragh Butler's enormous drums, "Understand" is the kind of on-nonsense, roll-up-yer-sleeves tune that Cormac Battle and his compadres were placed on this Earth to purvey. Settling into a groove somewhere between late '80s REM and "Candy Apple Grey"-era HUSKERS, "Understand" ought to be the one that finally shoves our Kilkenny heroes onto larger stages for a bout of stardom bothering. The "What took you so long?" chorus sears into you synapses like a sonic branding iron.
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The single features two versions of the song: the original album version and a slightly snappier radio edit. The latter is subjected to only a minor nipping and tucking job, although if (like me) you need "Understand" with producer Dave Eringa's kooky little keyboard solo (mini-moog, anyone?) virgo intacta, you'll still make straight for the original cut. Little things, friends, but they mean a lot.
"Understand" is Wilt's best - and snappiest - single to date. Start wising up to them, people.
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