"On That You Were Mistaken" from Wish Tank's brilliantly enigmatic full length "NO.1"

AP Track Review:

Wish Tank is the creatively wrought collab of Kevin Healey and Charlie Weber and rumor has it that it is a long distance relationship. It doesn't matter, there aesthetic on their full length NO. 1 is a bit all over the place in wonderful, sometimes odd ways. There is the sort of hillbilly punk sound of Here Comes the Shutdown, the funk fused punk of Birds Without Legs and the track, When She Sleeps that feels like that abstract foreign film, that try as you must, you could not understand in 6th grade (because you hadn't fallen in love yet) mixed with a slight dose of Alice in Chains (seriously) and the trippily, kind of stunning, Alligatron that doesn't take you down the rabbit hole but just might be the rabbit hole itself. 

And you have the beautifully brief but moving and poetic, On That You Were Mistaken that for brief seconds does sound like a Cheryl Crow song (listen?) but besides that, the song is pure and feels emotionally honest. I truly am enamored with the vocal performance here and the musical nuances throughout.  

Wish Tank's NO.1 is a perfectly imperfect album with bits of pure brilliance, too many to mention but incredibly fun and rewarding to find. It is an album you can get lost in, lost in all the obtuse diversions. This is a great find. This is why American Pancake exists. Find it for yourself. 

Wish Tank is:
Charlie Weber: music and lyrics
Kevin Healey: music, lyrics, performance, and production
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Robb Donker




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THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:

Wish Tank is a collaborative rock duo featuring Kevin Healey and Charlie Weber. Kevin and Charlie started playing together in high school, playing classic rock covers, original punk songs, and on one occasion a recitation of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 accompanied by a distorted guitar riff played over and over again for the benefit of Charlie’s English class. After college Charlie went to live on a kibbutz in Israel, and ended up doing a PhD in Jewish philosophy. Kevin also did a PhD in media studies and currently teaches at the University of New Hampshire. The two began working together again in 2018 and Wish Tank, No. 1 (official release date, September 10th) includes ten of their recent creations. Their approach is highly collaborative: both Kevin and Charlie write lyrics and music, and Kevin plays, sings, and produces everything (with the exception of a guest vocal by John Gibson). The current album offers a diverse potpourri of sounds and textures, ranging from the spacey and theatrical to the soulful. A wish tank is like a fish tank of the mind: it's a home for playful creatures of thought, and admits of free transfer of the imagination's vectors.