WISH
WISH
(Hand Drawn Dracula)
2/5
After a couple of mugs of coffee I sat down to listen to WISH’s self-titled and self-described “alternative/psychedelic” album. I quickly became irritated by the excessively grungy sound of feedback from heavily distorted guitars going off on unending solo jam sprees.
Perhaps the coffee had made me overly sensitive that morning, but the album was certainly not music to my ears and, upon first play, a creeping headache forced me to skip to the second half of the album, which at that time seemed more tolerable.
I realize, however, that psychedelic music is meant to enhance the experience of psychedelic drugs, so I was certainly doing WISH a disservice by critiquing their new album in a (relatively) sober state of mind. I would recommend anyone who has recently ingested LSD have a listen to this album and pass their personal judgements, but I would personally prefer to stick to the old-school psychedelic sounds of The Beatles or Jimi Hendrix.