Russ Lets Loose on New Album 'W!LD'
After premiering his newest album in the desert, W!ld is finally available on all streaming platforms.
Russ’s new album, W!LD, revolves around emotional exhaustion, self-exploration, and setting boundaries—both with others and with himself.
One of the clearest examples comes on the track Superman, where he reflects on the pressure to constantly show up for everyone else.
He said he saw himself as a lifeline, not a hotline, and emphasized his need for boundaries and a stronger sense of self.
According to him, he had been tangled in other people’s issues for too long, expected to fix everything, but he admitted he was over it—tired of carrying everyone else’s weight, and finally hitting his own breaking point.
That tension—between being needed and being depleted—runs throughout W!LD. It’s not just a project about growth, but about reckoning with the cost of being the dependable one for too many people, too often.
The album reads like a personal audit: one where Russ doesn’t offer all the answers, but instead documents the messy process of figuring things out.