One of those collaborations helped bring him back to Semisonic, though. A few years ago, Wilson was approached to write songs for a Liam Gallagher solo album. The reach-out was somewhat ironic, since Oasis and Semisonic toured together in the Nineties and Gallagher was not taken with rock from across the pond. “He said, ‘Americans writeWilson wrote a handful of songs for Gallagher, submitted them and then realized he’d missed the deadline. But the songs reminded him of a style he’d long avoided.
Did the response to those shows make Wilson feel the public was crying out for a Semisonic reunion? “Each time we would do a three-night stand, I would go, ‘OK, night one was good, night two was shaky and night three was amazing,'” Wilson says. “I didn’t think to myself, ‘Oh, the people have spoken. They want more!’ I was just in my usual state of like, ‘That was really fun, but we could have done that better.’ But it reinforced my desire to be with the guys and make that sound again.
The EP, recorded in an L.A. studio a few months before the coronavirus locked down studios, features songwriting contributions from Mike Viola. Tracks like the rousing road-tale saga “Basement Tapes” and the semi-ballad “All It Would Take” evoke both the band and Wilson’s subsequent songwriting forays.
All the songs retain the band’s signature sound, which Wilson says was intentional. “One of the things I said to Jacob and John when we started is, ‘I just want to make our sound and do what we do, and I really would like to not have us consider any questions updating the sound,'” Wilson says. “I didn’t want to do any conscious updates to make things sound modern. I just wanted to make the sound that we can make.
Like most musicians at this precarious moment, Wilson isn’t sure what lies ahead for the band once the EP is released . A few reunion shows for this year were postponed, and a 2021 series of reunion gigs seems more likely. Wilson also says he has at least one song on the forthcoming Chicks album,Then there’s the bigger intangible — where guitar-based power pop even fits in the 21st-century landscape.
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