Wishy – All The Rage
Last month, Wishy announced their sophomore LP Nature’s Pill. 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.”
Today, the band are sharing a second single from the LP, a track called “All The Rage” which is sung by Wishy’s other lead singer Kevin Krauter. Accompanied by a Trent Wayne-directed music video the band shot in Atlanta, GA, the track is a jangly rush in which Krauter channels the teenage angst 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!!!” -kev
In support of the album Wishy will be touring extensively, beginning with a run of dates with The Beths and Beach Bunny in August.
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 humor and color. 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.
| Tour Dates |
| 07/25 – Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues * 07/26 – Indianapolis, IN @ Deluxe at Old National Center * 07/27 – St. Louis, MO @ Delmar Hall * 07/31 – Santa Fe, NM @ The Bridge *& 08/01 – Tucson, AZ @ Rialto Theatre *& 08/02 – Las Vegas, NV @ House of Blues *& 08/04 – San Luis Obispo, CA @ Madonna Inn *& 08/06 – San Diego, CA @ SOMA *& 08/07 – Pomona, CA @ The Fox Theater *& 08/08 – Santa Ana, CA @ Observatory *& 08/11 – San Jose, CA @ San Jose Civic *& 08/14 – Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory *& 08/15 – Portland, OR @ Courthouse Square *& 08/16 – Seattle, WA @ Woodland Park Zoo *& 08/17 – Boise, ID @ Shrine Social Club Ballroom * 08/18 – Bozeman, MT @ The ELM * 08/20 – Omaha, NE @ Slowdown * 09/18 – Cincinnati, OH @ Fountain Square $ 09/26–09/27 – Sao Paolo, Brazil @ Balaclava Festival 10/03 – Indianapolis, IN @ WISHYFEST @ Atomic Duckpin 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 |
| w/ Beach Bunny *& w/ Beach Bunny and The Beths $ w/ Ratboys |
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