Ryan Farish Lets the Room Breathe on Wild As the Wind
A July album from a Dove-winning, Grammy-nominated composer that treats ambient, chillout, and a few dancefloor lifts as rooms in the same house.
Wild As the Wind has been out since July 10. The record is not a news-cycle drop. It is a 12-track sit-down from a composer who has been refining this hush for years.
“Written, composed, and performed by Farish from end to end, the album never sounds like a committee project.”
An Album That Already Has Its Street Date
Wild As the Wind arrived July 10, 2026 on RYTONE, with Black Hole in the picture for the dance side of Farish’s world. Twelve tracks, all written, composed, and performed by Ryan Farish. The title cut sits at track nine. This is not a just-dropped story. It is a record that has had weeks to settle, which suits it. Farish’s music has always asked you to stay in the room.
Obscure Sound singled out “Amber Sky,” “Perfect as You Are,” “Dada,” and the title track, and noted that “Amber Sky” landed on Spotify’s Emerging Electronic compilation. That range is the album in miniature: ambient hush, a warmer vocal-leaning moment, a little bounce, then the theme that gives the record its name.
Norfolk Roots, Los Angeles Quiet
Farish is Norfolk-born and Los Angeles-based, a downtempo and chillout composer whose name has lived on The Weather Channel and Storm Stories as much as on dance and new-age charts. Billboard has had him on both the new-age and dance/electronic lists. He coined the phrase Positive Chillout for the lane he keeps building. Yamaha has endorsed him. The career fact that still lands hardest is the co-write “Listen” for Trin-i-tee 5:7: a Dove win and a Grammy nomination, which tells you he can write a song that holds a room as well as a texture that fills one.
What we love is how little this album needs that résumé. You can come in cold and still feel the care in the sequencing. Nothing here sounds rushed to meet a coverage date. It sounds like someone who already knows how he wants a Tuesday afternoon to feel.
Leave It On
If you want a way in, start with the title track, then let “Perfect as You Are” and “Dada” show you the album can move. Or start at the top and do not skip. Wild As the Wind is built for the second kind of listen.
Farish has a lot of records behind him. We are not going to assign this one a number. We will say it feels like a composer still interested in the hush, and still willing to let the room dance when the track asks for it.
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