Last month we introduced Wishy, the new project led by Indiana songwriters Kevin Krauter and Nina Pitchkites which also features Paul Cherewick, Ben Lumsdaine and Steve Marino. The band are set to release their debut EP Paradise with Winspear in December, and first single ‘Donut‘ gave an idea of what to expect from the outfit. “A song which embraces alt rock energy and grungy weight alongside a gauzy shoegaze texture, making for something both propulsive and transportive,” as we described. “Pitchkites’s vocals slice through the haze with real clarity, a thread the listener follows into the sound and holds on to through the enveloping experience.”
With the EP a month away from release, Wishy have now unveiled follow-up single, ‘Too True’. Shoegaze, power pop and alt-rock sensibilities are drawn upon in weaving the song’s tactile atmosphere, again pairing punchy weight and hazy dreaminess to more fully inhabit the nuances of the themes. Namely how the passage of time gradually alters the shape of relationships, and moreover learning to accept such changes as an inherent part of any friendship.
What results is a sound confessional but assured. Delivered with the kind of wisdom only earned through lived experience. “Too true I wanted to be like you / Wanted to reverse myself,” Krauter sings in the opening lines. “Tough break all the hell that I created / Finally pouring out my mouth.”
Open up your eyes you can see what I see
Learning to survive only half empty don’t bother me
Cause no one knows from the first taste
We can never go back to the same place
