From the sparse intro and intricate interplay between bass and guitar that sounds like a melding of The Chills and The Smiths, the song builds and blossoms, adding Prefab Sprout/The Dream Academy piano stabs and topping it off with an exquisite vocal performance that tumbles and soars with supreme melodicism.
There's an 80s patina to the sound of 'Wild Night' but not of the chart pop variety. It's the forward thinking art-pop auteur like Talk Talk, The The and High Llamas.