The album features collaborations with the vocalists: Alex Aris, Andrew Watt, Dan Reynolds of Imagine Dragons, David Garza, Dougy of The Temper Trap, Franz Novotny, Gary Go, and Julia Spada; DJs: An21, Francesco Rossi, Saturday, Monday and Tom Taped; and the groups: Mako, Saints of Valory and The Presets.

Steve Angello has referred to Wild Youth as "the soundtrack of his life" in a recent statement of his; where he also stated about the album, "it's based on a true story—honest, naked and the most exposed I've ever been.

It included seven new tracks: "Rebel Nation", "Last Dance", "Revolution", "Stockholm Skies", "Someone Else", "Stay", and "....", a monologue from Steve Angello himself.

[17] "Wasted Love" was released as the album's lead single on 22 July 2014, featuring Indonesian singer-songwriter, Dougy from Australian indie group, The Temper Trap.

[21] All of the song's pre-sales in the month of June, along with 100% of its streaming revenue on Spotify, went towards the Save The Children organization, and their Nepal Disaster Relief fund.

[25] "The Ocean" was released as the album's fifth single on 20 November 2015, with additional credits given to the original artists of the song: Saturday, Monday and Julia Spada.

"[33] Ashley Zlatopolsky of Rolling Stone opined, "Wild Youth is a reminder that Angello is a solo dance force to take seriously.

Each ceramic piece has the figure of a different object, such as: a ninja star, ("Wasted Love"), a heart, ("Remember") and a baseball bat ("Tiger").

[40] For New York fashion week, Angello announced that he would open up a gallery exhibit for the art featured on Wild Youth.

The Wild Youth gallery exhibit also featured Angello's fashion collaboration with Odeur Studios, a line of unisex and children's clothing items.