And that idea hung over Wilson and his bandmates as they contemplated the group’s reactivation. When listeners hear new songs like the soaring title track and the riffing “Basement Tapes,” they may find themselves thinking that Semisonic has picked up right where it left off in 2001. “They’re songs that I love and I think are really, really special,” Wilson says, “but they just didn't rock the way these songs do.” “The 10, 11 and 12 tracks are good,” he says, but “they didn't hang together the way the central five did.” And some of the other songs lacked another qualitry common to many of Semisonic’s best tunes. “I realized that it's okay to do that.”īut with 20 songs written – and at least 14 of those recorded – why isn’t Semisonic releasing a full album instead of an EP? Wilson offers multiple reasons. “And when I was writing songs for Semisonic, I realized that I didn't really have to work too hard at that,” he says. We were much more like flower children,” he admits with a laugh. We never were portraying someone who was cooped up in their basement, full of anger. “Semisonic never did that we never sounded like that.” Instead, he suggests, his band displayed “a hopeful quality and kind of an openness. “That father-hating, lonely vengeance, dreams of glory vibe,” he says. Primary Wave did not share song titles in these instances, but Wilson’s only songs with Swift are “Treacherous” and “Come Back… Be Here” from 2012’s Red.Wilson chuckles as he summarizes the defining characteristics of grunge, the rock style du jour at the time Semisonic debuted. It also includes Wilson’s publishing rights to songs recorded by the likes of Taylor Swift, John Legend, Dierks Bentley, P!nk, Josh Groban and Chris Stapleton. Primary Wave confirmed to Rolling Stone that Wilson’s deal comprises his entire catalog. The cherry on top is the karaoke anthem that is Semisonic’s “Closing Time,” which spent 13 weeks at Number One on the modern rock chart in 1998. It also houses six songs from The Chicks’ Taking the Long Way, one being “Not Ready to Make Nice, which won the Song of the Year Grammy in 2007. Wilson’s deal includes a total of three Adele songs - “One and Only,” “Don’t You Remember,” and the multi-platinum “Someone Like You” - all of which are on the star’s groundbreaking debut album 21, which he helped produce. And it comes just one month after Stevie Nicks’ similar deal with Primary Wave. Only one week into 2021, this is the third major acquisition of songwriting rights this year, following that of Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham and Neil Young. Genre-traversing hitmaker and Semisonic frontman Dan Wilson has signed over 100% of his catalog - around 350 songs - to music publishing and management company Primary Wave, the latter announced on Thursday.
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