Wild Hunt are Matt Leitl and Croix Clayton, former guitarist and singer of Minneapolis punk rock and rollers The American Monsters, after which Leitl played with The Young Flyers, (Amherst) and Clayton with Thank You and Bravo Team (Minneapolis). As Wild Hunt, they write psychedelic pop in the tradition of the Velvets, Syd Barrett, Spacemen 3, the Left Banke, Mazzy Star, Beck, and Colin Blunstone.