Wishy

On the heels of their breakthrough debut album, Wishy returns with a new six-song EP titled Planet Popstar. A dreamy and pop-forward compilation of b-side tracks, the EP was recorded in the same sessions that birthed Triple Seven, the band’s widely acclaimed debut (“one of the best indie rock debuts in recent memory” says Stereogum). A critical success, their debut album recently landed on “best of the year” lists from The New York Times, GQ, Alt Press, Paste, Stereogum, Uproxx, NME, and more. Wishy’s Kevin Krauter and Nina Pitchkites first met in high school in Indiana but didn’t connect as friends until later. For years, their musical paths crossed and diverged, until they finally came together to form a new band. Wishy’s early days were fruitful, with Krauter and Pitchkites already armed with the songs destined for their debut all the way back in 2021. After prior monikers and iterations, Wishy was born as a kaleidoscope of alternative music’s semi-recent history, with traces of dream pop, grunge, and power-pop swirling together, bolstered by the rare musical synergy between Krauter and Pitchkites. In late 2022, the band had a fateful session in Los Angeles with Ben Lumsdaine, who ended up engineering, mixing and co-producing Triple Seven, and its tangential EPs, Paradise and Planet Popstar.