Wyldest melts the mold with new single "Wax Museum"

The London-based dream-pop artist Wyldest, Zoë Mead, is back with her fourth single, "Wax Museum," a fragile and introspective track which feels simultaneously breakable and bracing. The track is yet another glistering view into her highly anticipated fourth studio album, "The Universe Is Loading", which arrives November 14th, 2025, via Hand In Hive. "Wax Museum" serves as an artistic mission statement about avoiding emotional paralysis, inspired by painter Philip Guston's. 

Wyldest's voice flows over crystalline guitars and a dream-pop haze, quietly imploring listeners to avoid stagnation by accepting the untidy beauty of being alive. There's a slight ache in her delivery, a quiet rebellion against the impulse to freeze our emotions into wax. "Wax Museum" is a meditation on what it means to remain soft in a complex world.

Their production, overseen by Zoë Mead and Luciano Rossi, bathes their song in a delicate neon glow, one that's forward-facing. It's the sort of tableau that makes you want to close your eyes and breathe, to let its layers of reverb and melody wash over you like morning light seeping through fog. Wyldest captures that tender tautness between fear and openness, frozenness and motion, reminding us that to be alive truly, we need to keep melting, becoming new shapes, and starting over again.

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