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.
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.”