Wishy – ‘Nature’s Pill’ review: heartfelt, hopelessly romantic indie-rock gold

Wishy’s Kevin Krauter and Nina Pitchkites first crossed paths at high school, something that makes immediate sense amid the power-pop hooks and rich indie-rock textures of ‘Nature’s Pill’. The surging emotions and slacker charm of the Indianapolis band’s second album are perfectly attuned to that formative time, when fucking up and figuring things out in the company of friends and could-be-more-than-friends seemed all-consuming. READ MORE: After’s nostalgic trip-pop is bringing the “promise of Y2K” into the present The former NME Cover stars pare back some of the shoegazey rumination found on their debut ‘Triple Seven’. Instead, on ‘Nature’s Pill’ the feelings are bigger and their songwriting instincts are sharper, with the cleanest melodies of their career underpinning a treatise on longing that will chime with anyone who’s ever thrown themselves face-down on a bed while muttering, “It’s just so unfair, man.” The record’s touchstones, from gleaming ’90s chart rock to Parquet Courts-y weirdo-indie and the thrashing twee-pop of The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, are separated by genre markers and years of rock history but united by a common sensibility. It’s a sort of gloopy euphoria...