Double Wish - Light Split Sparkle Expanded (Cassette)

This release is the expanded version of the debut EP from the Orange County-based dark-sunshine-pop duo, Double Wish; the project of childhood friends, Adam Sabolick and Philippe Andre.

The new version – available as a limited edition cassette by Chalkpit Cassette Club – arrives with 4 additional bonus tracks, including the Yppah Remix of "Fever Dream", "Pleasure", "Edge to Edge" and "Say This".

By searching for the middle point within a vast array of influences, taken from everything between The Roches, George Clanton, Pond, STRFKR, Third Eye Blind, Korn, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, and more, Double Wish arrives with a self-proclaimed dark-sunshine-pop sound. It's a phrase that came to Sabolick after picking up on how The Mamas & The Papas album, People Like Us, operates on a psychological level, mixing the light with the dark. Throughout 2020 and 2021, Sabolick took solace in People Like Us, a record that, in time, would become the bedrock to the debut Double Wish EP, showing Sabolick the way to couple somber lyrics with gleaming, hyper-pop sensibilities.

True to this mantra, Light Split Sparkle bears delightful melodies and twinkling sunshine-pop jams, pairing these notions with existential and introspective thoughts from Sabolick on relationships with one another and also with himself. These thoughts were compounded throughout the pandemic when quarantining accelerated his already heightened sense of self and of others.