Wish Tank's punk bravado quizzical whimsy of "Pig and Balthazar"

"Pig and Balthazar eating crackers with chilli writing out their memoirs..."


Wish Tanks' songs are full of quizzical lyrics riding on forlorn melodies carried within divergent diorama's of sound. Pig and Balthazar is no acception and, in short, I usually don't know what the fuck the mildly insane and wildly creative Kevin Healey and Charlie Weber are talking about. They just make take stream of consciousness lyrics (if that is indeed what they are practicing here) to a high refined art form and I like the juggling act here on this song. There is a sense of punk bravado and of whimsy too that requires multiple listens which in turn turns into multiple eyebrow raises and smiles, oh and those lush double leads guitars (damn). Lyrically, shape shifting-wise I think of them as Modest Mouse on hallucinogens. 
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Robb Donker Curtius




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.