Once a month, Consequence proudly highlights an artist who is ready for the big moment with our I praise CoSign. As of March 2024, that title goes to 19-year-old nu-gazer Wisp and his debut EP, Pandora.
Wisp is like any other music-obsessed 19-year-old: she loves talking songs with friends, posts Topsters on her Instagram to show off her ever-developing taste, and almost instantly became a leading figure in the shoegaze revival with her first release , “Your face”. Come to think of it, that last one could be something of his…
“It's been really exciting,” says the artist. Consequence of its rapid and continuous rise. “I didn't expect it at all because I posted it online for fun. I thought it was a cool song, but I didn't expect much from it.”
And yet, a lot It's exactly what he got. The irresistible, distortion-drenched track currently has over 45 million streams on Spotify, and it's not hard to understand why. Perfectly playing with tension and release, the song oscillates between confusing and DIFFUSE in a way that scratches a deep itch when looking at the pedalboard. Complemented by her saturated, ethereal vocals, the song taps into the shoegaze aesthetic so perfectly that one might suspect it's the product of a writing team of contemporary indie rock tastemakers. In reality, it's simply the work of a teenager with a knack for satisfying song structures and heavy tones, a teenager whose previous musical experiences didn't extend beyond her school band and frolicking around the house. her bedroom.
“I grew up listening to a lot of dream pop and was also introduced to older rock when I was 12. It was that type of music that started to lead me to shoegaze,” she recalls. “I just discovered it as it was, not knowing it was called shoegaze, but I really liked their sound and how they have very strong drops in their music; that was my favorite part. I would just make super long dream pop and shoegaze playlists, and then I discovered what the genre 'really meant' and got more into it.”
Obsessed with Deftones and Whirr (her Instagram handle is @whirrwhoreforlyfe), Wisp became swept up in the swirling sonic universe those bands embody, discovering new music and a thriving community.
“The shoegaze community is definitely interesting, but they're really cool and I love it,” he says. “I think it's really cool to see a new generation of shoegaze and, in a way, its resurgence. But they are [also] making it its own sound, and it's something totally different from what shoegaze used to be.”
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