Wishy's full-length debut is a blend of dream pop, shoegaze and indie rock that expands the lush, divine textures of their two 2023 EPs.
The Indiana band’s full-length debut is a blend of dream pop, shoegaze and indie rock that expands the lush, divine textures of their two 2023 EPs.
There is no shortage of bands that spend months or years finding their sound—exploring, ebbing and flowing, evolving, and often releasing their embryonic music along the way. That’s most bands, actually. And it’s a perfectly good path to take. But then there are those bands that seem to show up more or less fully formed, as though they skipped right past the awkward stages and went straight to knowing what they’re doing and how to do it well.
. At 10 tracks and 41 minutes long, it solidifies Wishy’s sound and proves that the band—formed in 2021 by longtime friends Kevin Krauter and Nina Pitchkites—has the chops to sustain its standard of quality across a full-length release. This is not terribly surprising, but for rock fans burned by promising bands’ patchy releases in the past, it’s nice to hear.
Wishy have many strengths, but chief among them is their affinity for instrumental hooks that surface from the swirl and settle in your brain for the foreseeable future. They’re everywhere: A three-note idea that crests over and over again in the background of “Sick Sweet”; the skittering rhythm that underpins the title track; the arena-ready twin-guitar solo in “Persuasion”; the extra-crunchy final third of “Love on the Outside,” in which a jaunty pop tune turns into roaring riff-rock.
Ben Salmon is a committed night owl with an undying devotion to discovering new music. He lives in the great state of Oregon, where he hosts a killerand obsesses about Kentucky basketball from afar. Ben has been writing about music for more than two decades, sometimes for websites you’ve heard of but more often for alt-weekly papers in cities across the country.
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