Today, Wisp kicks off the summer with her heaviest, grungiest single to date, "Save Me Now." Having just made her Coachella debut and the Kilby stage, she's set to hit Bonnaroo next as a final warmup for her run with some of her heroes System of a Down, KORN, Deftones, and Avenged Sevenfold. See all upcoming dates below, and listen to "Save me now" here.
On "Save me now," Wisp counteracts a poisonous vulnerability and echoing but intimate vocals – in a loud, present and powerful whisper – with her most leaning guitar lines, employing the ragged edges on the distortion to break skin, mirroring the sacrifices made in times of deep infatuation, without the soft landing of love. A further play upon the chivalrous medieval fantasy world she's concocted so far, "Save me now" shows another side to her story while maintaining vast, cathedral acoustics.
Of the single, Wisp says: "'Save me now' represents the desperation for attention, sometimes mistaken as love, when you are in a lonely and vulnerable place. It’s about being infatuated with the idea of a savior that blindly leads you to making sacrifices on your wellbeing."
"Save me now" follows singles "Get back to me," an almost holy mixture of raw emotion and precisely manipulated nu-metal, and "Sword," a brutally exquisite, icily-rendered depiction of internal maelstroms blown to epic proportions. Fraught with filigree, these singles serve as the building blocks under what's sure to be a momentous year in Wisp's journey.
Inspired by the likes of Whirr and Slowdive (who, in a dream come true, she toured with in 2024), Wisp has crafted a distinct and sophisticated sound that strives to realize the expansive possibilities of rock music. Pigeons & Planes rightfully predicted that “it is only a matter of time before Wisp becomes Gen-Z’s go-to ethereal fix,” while Notion declared that she is “bringing shoegaze back with a vengeance.”
Wisp has graced the global cover of Apple Music's New Music Daily playlist, reached hundreds of millions of streams across all platforms, was named an artist to watch by NYLON, Pigeons & Planes, Spotify Lorem Artist To Watch, Amazon Breakthrough Artists, Consequence Artist of the Month, and YouTube Music Artist On The Rise Trending, She's been featured in print in The New York Times and the LA Times, graced the cover of Alt Press's recent Winter edition, and has been featured across the web in Rolling Stone, Stereogum, PAPER, Brooklyn Vegan, and many more.
Her debut single, "Your face," hit #10 on the Billboard Hot Hard Rock Songs: a telling indicator of her immediacy and powerful melodic instincts. "Your face" now sits at over 110M streams on Spotify alone, she has amassed over 250M total cross-platform streams and has reached a quarter of a million followers on Instagram.
In May of 2024, she played her live debut in Los Angeles to two sold-out crowds of die-hard fans wearing homemade merch. Just three months later, she played her first major festivals at Lollapalooza, Levitation, Camp Flog Gnaw, and Corona Capital. She's even headlined her own sold-out shows on three different continents: North America, Europe, and Asia.
Wisp has arrived, humbled by her experiences but emboldened to take on what's next. The saga continues as Wisp takes us towards her debut full body of work.
Listen to "Save me now," out now via Interscope, here.
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