Today, Wishy are releasing their sophomore LP Nature’s Pill. Out via Winspear, the album is the follow up to their widely acclaimed 2024 debut Triple Seven, and has been one of the most anticipated albums of the year, earning praise already from outlets like The New York Times, Vulture, Pitchfork, Stereogum, Paste and many others. LISTEN HERE.

The release has been preceded by the singles ‘All The Rage‘, ‘Lovesick‘, ‘Sensational‘, and ‘Mona Lisa‘, and today the band are sharing a video for the album track ‘Covergirl’ to mark the album’s release. The Indianapolis band will be celebrating the album’s release with a hometown festival this weekend dubbed Wishyfest, and their US tour in support of the album will begin next week.  Full details, including support from youbet, The Umbrellas, Dead Sullivan and Touch Girl Apple Blossom, can be found at wishyband.com

After the prolific burst of acclaim from the Mana and Paradise EPs in 2023, debut LP Triple Seven in 2024, and a follow-up EP Planet Popstar in 2025, as Wishy’s stature rose, the conception of Nature’s Pill was fundamentally different. “The songs were still flowing, but this album was more intentional,”Pitchkites says. “There was also some pressure of knowing we were working toward a definitive project,”Krauter adds, drawing a line from the early days when the band had a vault of material but hadn’t yet built an audience. “It gave these songs a more cohesive world to exist in, even if that world is a Pandora’s Box of everything.”

The entire project was a more collaborative effort. After writing separately for all of their debut, Krauterand Pitchkites sat down to write together as much as solo; guitarist Dimitri Morris and bassist Mitch Collins contributed to the writing process. The group reconvened with Triple Seven co-producer Ben Lumsdaine in Los Angeles, where the quintet packed into a tiny studio and tracked half the songs live in the room, imbuing the album with the immediate energy of a band in sync after heavy touring. It gave them the ability to synthesize an even greater array of touchstones this time around, with the ‘90s dream-pop and alt-rock of Triple Seven fusing with ‘80s college rock and ‘00s indie. “We were getting a bit more twee with it, embracing the young hipster headspace we had in high school,” Krauter says.

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 favoured 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.”

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.