Wishy – Paradise

Here’s a fun exercise: say »shoegaze« and explain to people what it is or used to be without using a single band name. No, not Lush, not My Bloody Valentine, not even Slowdive or Ride, don’t mention any of that, they’re all past their prime anyway despite newspaper writing about young people having interest in guitar music again. That would at least explain why suddenly albums like this one from Wishy called »Paradise« come out in droves and that’s what they sound like: not too bad at all, and much like you’d explain that one thing without mentioning Kevin Shields. Christoph Benkeser