Wishy – Mona Lisa
We’re less than a month away from the release of Wishy’s highly-anticipated sophomore LP Nature’s Pill.
The album, which is due out October 2nd on Winspear, is the follow up to their widely acclaimed 2024 debut Triple Seven, and has so far seen the release of three singles “All The Rage,” “Lovesick,” and “Sensational,” which Consequence described as “pure dopamine.”
Today, the band are back to share a final preview of the album, a track called “Mona Lisa.”
Wishy’s music seems to emerge from a fantasy realm: triggering memories of late ‘90s and early ‘00s crossover alt hits, but rendered with Wishy’s sharp songwriting acumen and free-for-all verve. “Mona Lisa” epitomizes this appeal and the band’s easy charm, launching with with a timeless guitar pop swagger before cresting into a singalong outro.
Singer/guitarist Kevin Krauter says of the track:
A courtroom drama starring love and apathy. Was all that pleasure worth all that pain? Will the opposing witness withstand cross-examination? You be the judge!
The band has spent much of the summer crossing the US with The Beths and Beach Bunny, and have announced a run of US headlining dates. Full details, including support from youbet, The Umbrellas, Dead Sullivan and Touch Girl Apple Blossom, can be found below.
Wishy’s origins go way back, to when Krauter and Pitchkites met in high school in Indianapolis. Some years and a few projects later, they joined forces to form Wishy, rounding out the lineup with guitarist Dimitri Morris, bassist Mitch Collins, and drummer Conner Host. The group’s musical synergy was intense from the jump and the beginning of their career has been a prolific burst: the Mana and Paradise EPs in 2023, debut LP Triple Seven in 2024, and a follow-up EP Planet Popstar in 2025. After those releases met acclaim and the band’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, Krauter and Pitchkites sat down to write together as much as solo; Morris and 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 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.”
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.
| Tour Dates |
| 09/18 – Cincinnati, OH @ Fountain Square $ 09/26–09/27 – Sao Paolo, Brazil @ Balaclava Festival 10/03 – Indianapolis, IN @ Atomic Duckpin – WISHYFEST |
| 10/09 – Columbus, OH @ Ace of Cups ! |
| 10/10 – Toronto, ON @ The Garrison |
| 10/11 – Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz ! |
| 10/13 – Portland, ME @ SPACE ! |
| 10/14 – Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall |
| 10/15 – Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church ! |
| 10/17 – New York, NY @ Racket ! ^ |
| 10/18 – Washington, DC @ Atlantis ^ |
| 10/20 – Durham, NC @ Stanczyks ^ |
| 10/21 – Atlanta, GA @ The Earl ^ |
| 10/22 – Asheville, NC @ Revival ^ |
| 10/23 – Nashville, TN @ Blue Room ^ |
| 10/25 – Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St Entry ^ |
| 10/26 – Milwaukee, WI @ X-Ray Arcade ^ |
| 10/27 – Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall ^ |
| 11/29 – Lawrence, KS @ The Bottleneck + |
| 12/01 – Denver, CO @ Marquis + |
| 12/02 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court + |
| 12/05 – Seattle, WA @ Barboza + |
| 12/06 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios + |
| 12/08 – San Francisco, CA @ The Independent + |
| 12/10 – Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room + |
| 12/12 – Tucson, AZ @ Hotel Congress + |
| 12/14 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Upstairs % |
| 12/15 – Austin, TX @ 29th St Ballroom % |
| 12/16 – Dallas, TX @ Club Dada % |
| $ w/ Ratboys |
| ! youbet |
| ^ Dead Sullivan |
| + The Umbrellas |
| % Touch Girl Apple Blossom |
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