A host of love songs are scattered across the record, but they\u2019re no less frazzled or frayed. \u201cHeadscratcher\u201d is a tale of desire set at last call, each foggy come-on encircled by a corkscrewing guitar riff, as if the song mirrored the spiraling thoughts of romantic obsession. \u201cKiss Kiss Kiss,\u201d with its Auto-Tuned vocals and woozy drum programming, hints at a more purely pleasurable version of the band\u2019s pop impulses. Still, the track eventually collides into a seasick wall of distortion that recalls lovesliescrushing\u2019s weightless takes on shoegaze as Pitchkites sings of unmet expectations and self pity. Even \u201cLovesick\u201d\u2014a piece of nostalgic guitar pop that recalls the more fuzzed-out corners of the Sarah Records catalog\u2014is thrown off balance by the spirit of its title. It\u2019s not just a song about love, but about the way desire can be an affliction.<\/p>\n
For all the complicated feelings they express throughout the record, Wishy rarely let off the gas on Nature\u2019s Pill. They charge headlong into the fray, which is of course one way of dealing with gloomier emotions. On the record\u2019s closing track, \u201cParty World,\u201d they lay out the approach as clearly as they can. \u201cOne day, I was walking around, briefly quite demoralized,\u201d they sing. \u201cSo I took to the sky in a big jet plane and flew until the stars were lines.\u201d Before long, the distortion kicks in, the song takes off, and the depression\u2019s in the rearview, for a moment. These students of twee know a thing or two about evasive tactics: Maybe you can\u2019t outrun depression, but it\u2019s a lot harder to hit a moving target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A host of love songs are scattered across the record, but they\u2019re no less frazzled or frayed. \u201cHeadscratcher\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[4958,156,157,111,139,69,1251],"class_list":["post-630061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-albums","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}