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The Wishes And The Glitch

[3/5]

Memo to bands everywhere: Joke names? Not such a good idea. Turns out the time I’ve spent intentionally ignoring who I thought were some poop-joke pop-punk band I could’ve been spacing out to sophisticated, pysch-tinged Rogue Wave-style indie rock. Perhaps it’s maturity that drove main dude Eric Elbogen to drop the “To Your Mom” part of his band’s name-or perhaps a broken heart. Whatever the motive was, it all comes through on this eclectic collection of blissed-out, bass and synth-heavy ruminations. There’s a quiet sense of dread in Elbogen’s off-kilter, echoing, wounded voice; a world-weary confusion that peaks tentatively through the moments of tension and release, particularly on songs like the beautiful "Northwestern Girls." Not that everything is dour; the band employ bouncy, Cure-style bass lines on "Toil And Trouble" and "Apples For The Innocent," and a resplendent "doo-doo" chorus on "Back Before We Were Brittle." (EUPHOBIA) Luke O’Neil