Wish

Rock · 1992 · 12 tracks

Wish

A swirling kaleidoscope of shimmering guitars and deep-sea yearning. It balances chart-topping pop euphoria with some of the band's most expansive, psychedelic gloom.

Prismatic peak

A swirling, triple-guitar density sweeps across this prismatic record, capturing a band navigating the dizzying heights of global fame while remaining deeply vulnerable. The music trades the monolithic, grey keyboards of the recent past for a watercolor-like bleed of bright, euphoric pop and feedback-laden shoegaze. It is an album of sharp contradictions, where the manic highs of new love crash directly into the crushing, static lows of their inevitable end.

Wish · vs · The Cure

Breathy+2.5σ

The vocals lean far further into breathy than the rest of the catalogue.

Tracklist · 12 Tracks

01

Open

6:52

02

High

3:37

03

Apart

6:38

04

From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea

7:45

05

Wendy Time

5:13

06

Doing the Unstuck

4:25

07

Friday I’m in Love

3:39

08

Trust

5:32

09

A Letter to Elise

5:14

10

Cut

5:56

11

To Wish Impossible Things

4:44

12

End

6:45

Moments Worth Waiting For

04From the Edge of the Deep Green SeaThe interlocking, three-part electric guitar arrangements on 'From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea' build a dense, ocean-like current of sound.

11To Wish Impossible ThingsGuest musician Kate Wilkinson contributes a mournful viola part to 'To Wish Impossible Things', adding a delicate, classical texture to the quiet ballad.

07Friday I’m in LoveThe bright, jangly acoustic strumming and joyful vocal delivery on 'Friday I’m in Love' provide a stark, euphoric contrast to the surrounding gloom.

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