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Isabel Johnson discovers a filmic, fascinating and tender new release by indie pop singer-songwriter
Island Records
15.08.25
Conan Gray’s fourth full length LP, Wishbone, is visual, cinematic and predictably wonderful. Melodically fascinating and full of wit, Wishbone flits between sweet and salty (generously so, when it wants to be) and tells what feels like the story of a complete love, and a complete loss. It’s a beautiful tapestry of what heartbreak and healing feel like, but unlike a lot of offerings Wishbone is the full picture – no fraying at the edges or indecipherable smudges in the middle, it’s a whole world and you’re entirely involved in it.
Wishbone feels a closer sibling to Gray’s earlier works than his last LP, the synthy 80s project Found Heaven, but its production value is still remarkably dynamic and impressive, despite sitting in a slightly more tender thematic universe. Each track has its own character, but they all hold hands in the nicest of ways. Exhale, Conan Gray fans – it’s a good one.
