by Dan Goldin (@post_trash_)
Casey Weissbuch has had his hand in many different pots over the years, as a musician who has played in bands ranging from Diarrhea Planet to Mitski, as a curator for the excellent Infinity Cat Records tape club, and as a song writer in projects like Slanted. Wisebuck, his latest project, however, feels like a fresh start, a new focused use of his energy. The band, comprised of Weissbuch, Matt Kursmark, Mike Sarason, Dylan Debiase, and Jon Degen, are set to release their debut album, Flyworld, on January 17th, a breezy “college-rock” and fuzzy pop record.
Lead single “I Can’t Change” balances the band’s dreamy aesthetics with some twang and boisterous lyrics and well, it feels very rock ‘n’ roll. Sliding between lap steel accents and a surfy aura, Weissbuch gives it a punchy vocal melody, full of personal reflection and vivid imagery, of wandering and stumbling his way forward. The hook finds a warm harmony (courtesy of Velvet Vaughan) that sits perfectly in the gentle mix, a nuanced layer that adds a sing-a-long quality to the lines “I can’t change, its really something that I get crazy about.” Everything about the song is clean and focused, like looking up at the stars through the desert air, not a cloud or building in sight.