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OUR DEBUT ALBUM

COWBOY PRACTICE

From the gently rolling plains of the American Midwest to the windswept,

hilly coastlines of Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa, Sig Wilder has spent a

lifetime chasing something just beyond his reach, but not beyond his sight.

Now, with his band Sig Wilder & Friends, he captures the process of finding

your place in the world on Cowboy Practice, their moody debut album.

Rooted in the traditions of folk, alt-country and ambient Americana, Cowboy Practice is a hard-won series of reflections on homesickness, resilience, and becoming. Born in a small town outside St. Louis, Missouri, and shaped by years spent in Austin, Melbourne and his new home, Sig’s songwriting carries the weathered grace of a handwritten journal—full of cracked memories, quiet revelations, and dust-kicked hope. Tracked between Lincoln, Nebraska and Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Cowboy Practice is adorned with spare slide guitar, harmonica, warm vocal harmonies, and the easy pull of a rolling rhythm section. Across songs like “Stop Myself,” “Texasman,” and “Light Tower,” Sig holds a cracked mirror to the long, slow work of making sense of who we are.

Together with Mads Taylor, Tessa Dillon and Sofia Machray, Sig Wilder & Friends have become fixtures of Wellington’s D.I.Y. music community. As Sig reflects, “Cowboy Practice is about becoming content with who I am. That’s how it started, and I am in no way finished on that journey. But I’m happy with the cowboy that I’ve become, regardless of any notions of how one “should” be a cowboy.”

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credits:

Recorded and Mixed by Philip Zach at The Grid

Additional Mixing by Matthew Campbell & Emily Wheatcroft-Snape

Additional Recording at Lunchbox Studio

Instrumentation & Vocals by Sig Wilder

Additional Piano by Philip Daniel

Additional Guitar and Drums by Philip Zach

Written and Produced by Matthew Campbell & Ruby Leonard

Support from Adrianna Miranda, Floyd Graham, Ella Salome, Zech Campbell, Samantha Gumpenberger, Tiffaney Danz, and Marty & Terri Campbell

Big thanks to Rangi Aniwaniwa, Collin Cook, Mary Catherine Cook, Taylor Nixon, Sofia Machray, Courtney Ilton, Jake Ingram, Tasha Tziakis, Teeps Tichbon, Barney Johnson & Tessa Dillon

Additional Vocals by Mads Taylor, Janie Shaw, and Elias Davies

Mastered by Joshua Llewellyn at Downbeat Mastering

Support from Home Alone Records

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