Wishy live in the 9th Ward, Buffalo, NY

Name: Wishy live in the 9th Ward, Buffalo, NY
Start: 2025-01-30T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Asbury Hall

Schedule

Thu, 30 Jan, 2025 at 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Asbury Hall | Buffalo, NY

DSP Shows presents Wishy live in the 9th Ward
7pm Doors, 8pm Show
Tickets: General Admission Standing: On Sale Fri 12/6 10am $15 advance / $18 day of show, available at TixR.com or in person at the Babeville Box Office (M-F 11a-5p- in person fee free cash sales, 3% credit/debit card fee).
You could call Wishy’s story a lucky one. For years, Kevin Krauter and Nina Pitchkites’ musical paths crossed then diverged, until they finally came together to form a new band. For a couple more years that band morphed, changing names and styles, but once everything cohered, it was clear Krauter and Pitchkites’ musical synergy was a rare one–the kind that sounds like someone hitting the jackpot. Part sly wink and part warm gratitude, it’s only fitting their much-anticipated full-length debut is titled Triple Seven.
Over time, Krauter’s interest has skewed towards wanting Wishy to be louder, more aggressive, more fun. Eventually, a full band lineup cohered with the additions of guitarist Dimitri Morris, bassist Mitch Collins and drummer Conner Host. On Triple Seven, the group achieves both a synthesis and a tension, foreshadowed by opener “Sick Sweet.” That song rushes out the gates with a nimble alt-rock glide, its title outlining the binaries Pitchkites and Krauter manipulate across the ensuing nine tracks. Sometimes Wishy is all swoon and mist, as on gorgeous Pitchkites-led tracks like “Little While” and “Just Like Sunday.” Other times, Pitchkites and Krauter merge their voices, as on the jangly cascade of “Persuasion” or the scuzzy, feral closer “Spit.” In “Love On The Outside,” Wishy’s penchant for indelible hooks is couched equally in pillowy atmospherics and scathing distortion, becoming a wave over which Krauter wrestles with all the excitement and impatience and frustration that comes with the confusing but ultimately joyful nascent stages of a budding relationship.