Wish Defense

FACS
Trouble In Mind Records
General Digital | Mar 2025

Reviews

Red West
Reviewed 2025-03-06
Contemporary No-wave / slowcore / shoegaze, even early 80s post-punk + goth elements. Guitar/drum/bass heavy, there are vocals (not many words) but they are nuggets in the rocky road. Band members from Pittsburgh and Chicago, and indeed a mix of Steve Albini & Don Caballero esthetic. After writing that I read liner notes and see this album is Albini's final engineering job.
All tracks good, FCC clean.

+1. A slow menace. Song about facing your other side.
2.Ringing guitar, warbling minimalism, goes at a good clip.
3.Cleaner sound, mid-tempo, sparse opening then 2nd half fills in
+4.Cool drums and simple bass intro
5. fast and full. A bit like an old plane with a damaged propeller flying with turbulence, cymbals crashing on landing.
+6. Buzzy bass, slow driving. Melodic overtone guitar chimes, deadpan vocal. Like if a couple Cocteau Twins instrumental stems went into an Albini filter before laying on the rest.
+7.Mid-tempo, cool feedback and clean drums, downer feel

Recent airplay

Desire Path
Music CasseroleJun 28, 2025
Desire Path
Oh Messy LifeMay 08, 2025
Ordinary Voices
Virtually HappyMay 05, 2025
Desire Path
Virtually HappyApr 21, 2025
Talking Haunted
Landau RoofApr 19, 2025
Sometimes Only
Music CasseroleApr 19, 2025

Charting

2025-03-16 — 2025-06-17
Week EndingAirplays
May 11 2
Apr 27 1
Apr 20 2
Apr 13 1
Mar 23 1

Track listing

1. Talking Haunted 4:23
2. Ordinary Voices 5:38
3. Wish Defense 4:05
4. A Room 3:18
5. Desire Path 2:15
6. Sometimes Only 6:26
7. You Future 4:24