Wishy share new single ‘All The Rage’ from forthcoming album Nature’s Pill out Oct 2 via Winspear
PRAISE FOR Wishy
“A promising new group…Wishy’s take on dream-pop is fuzzy, immersive and irresistibly catchy”
“One of the finest indie rock debuts in recent memory”
“Triple Seven is full of moments that crystallize Wishy as one of the best new bands in indie rock writ large”
“They are one of the most exciting new rock bands operating anywhere right now”
“It has great melodies, lots of shoegaze-y texture, a dash of current genre du jour Midwestern emo, and just the right amount of ’90s big-budget alternative radio nostalgia”
“At a time when aggressive, gloomier strains of shoegaze have dominated the genre’s landscape, Wishy’s music serves as a reminder that dreamy music can be just as immersive when it’s glimmering and crisp”
“Standout voice in a new generation of shoegaze”
“For fans of nineties indie, early-noughties emo, or contemporary dream pop, Planet Popstar cements Wishy as a compelling new voice in alternative rock”
“Soaring, earnest, open-hearted melodies are abundant across Triple Seven, anchoring the whirlwind of noise and distorted guitars”
“A sublime slice of guitar-forward shoegaze that swirls and activates even in its dreamiest modes....think Slow Pulp or Soccer Mommy with twice the volume levels and an added dose of chaos”
LP TRACKLIST
1. All The Rage
2. Covergirl
3. Sensational
4. Shift
5. You’re Not Serious
6. Mona Lisa
7. Lovesick
8. Freak 99
9. Headscratcher
10. Blitz
11. Kiss Kiss Kiss
12. Party World
‘All The Rage’ is out now, buy/stream it here.
WISHY
Nature’s Pill LP
Oct 2 via Winspear
PRE-ORDER LP HERE
Last month, Minneapolis band Wishy announced their new album Nature’s Pill. Today they share second single ‘All The Rage’, a robust and angst fuelled sing-a-long led by Kevin Krauter. LISTEN + WATCH HERE + PRE-ORDER LP HERE.
Accompanied by a Trent Wayne-directed music video the band shot in Atlanta, GA, ‘All The Rage’ is a jangly rush in which Krauter channels the teenage dread that can descend again even in adult breakups, as he explains in his own unique style: “Hello Lovelies and welcome to the official Wishy press blurb for the second single !!!! Yayyy the song is out we are so happy!! 🙂 Some *~Fun Facts~* about this song number 1. i wrote it after seeing artificial go and good flying birds play an awesome show major inspo 2. my roommate judah gave me some good pointers while i was writing it shoutout to him and 3. the band played all together while recording this one 🙂 ok thanx enjoy!!!”
Just as their sound is often a swirl of various alternative and indie traditions, Wishy’s new songs collide the highs, pitfalls, and banal detritus of human experience alike. Nature’s Pill re-examines some of Wishy’s favored themes under new lights, jumping off from breakup songs to more abstract meditations on forlornness, romantic intention, lust. “We take that stuff and almost write in a fictional, hypothetical frame of mind,” Krauter explains. “The songs capture romantic frustration and neurotic desire and the melodrama that ensues from simply being a person with emotions experiencing relationships and inner turmoil. But it’s embellished—nothing we do is overly confessional.”
“It’s historical fiction,” Pitchkites quips.
Yet Wishy render even their heaviest, most poignant moments with humour and colour. Far from being a downer lovelorn record, Nature’s Pill also lights up with open horizons glimpsed after romantic fallout: new people to meet, new places to live, new sounds to chase. And when there are moments of abject heartbreak or loneliness, they spike it with their customary cheekiness.
Underneath it all, Wishy locate a tenacity to keep trying anyway. “Being in an indie band feels bizarre when the world is on fire,” Krauter concludes. “What can you do at the end of the day other than carve out some space—at the very least I have my imagination and I can invite others to join me there. At a certain point you need to say fuck it and roll with it.” Sometimes you can’t make sense of it all. Nature’s Pill finds Wishy gleefully giving into the madness. After all: If life is absurd, all the possibilities are up to you.
Due out out October 2nd on Winspear, the album is the follow up to their celebrated 2024 Triple Seven and was announced with the buoyant, Nina Pitchkites-led single ‘Lovesick‘, praised by to Be Magazine: “From the outset, the sprightly guitars and quaint vocals of Nina Pitchkites draw listeners into an unabashedly twee pop sound, edged with traces of grit. Self-described as a “main character song”, ‘Lovesick’ carries the swooning naivety of innocent romance.” In support of the album Wishy will be touring extensively, beginning with a run of dates with The Beths and Beach Bunny in August.
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