Wishy have released Nature’s Pill, a second album that finds the Indianapolis five-piece making the band’s collaborative identity more central to the music. Out October 2 through Winspear, the record follows 2024 debut Triple Seven and a run of EPs that established Wishy as one of the more visible new names around the intersection of indie rock, shoegaze and power pop.
The biggest change is how the record was made. Kevin Krauter and Nina Pitchkites wrote separately throughout much of Triple Seven; for Nature’s Pill, they increasingly wrote together, with guitarist Dimitri Morris and bassist Mitch Collins also entering the writing process. The full band then reconvened in Los Angeles with producer Ben Lumsdaine, recording roughly half of the material live in a small studio.
From individual songs to a band record
That shift matters because Wishy’s early appeal often came from the contrast between Krauter and Pitchkites. Nature’s Pill turns that contrast into something more collective. “All The Rage” and “Lovesick” split lyrical contributions between the two singers, while Morris co-wrote the music for “Covergirl” and Collins contributed to “Sensational” and “Party World.”
The result arrives with a slightly different frame around a band that has often been filed under shoegaze. The hazier textures have not disappeared, but the new material places more emphasis on hooks, live interplay and the kind of immediate guitar-pop energy that becomes harder to reduce to a single revivalist tag.
A fast-moving Indianapolis story
Wishy’s catalog has grown quickly: the Mana and Paradise EPs arrived in 2023, Triple Seven followed in 2024, and Planet Popstar extended the run in 2025. Winspear describes Nature’s Pill as a more intentional project created after touring and a rapidly expanding audience changed the context around the band.
That makes the new album less about abandoning Wishy’s earlier sound than testing what happens when a promising project starts functioning as a fully integrated band. Nature’s Pill is available now digitally and in physical formats through Winspear.
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