Double Wish - Light Split Sparkle (2023) Hi Res

This release marks the debut EP from Los Angeles-based dark-sunshine-pop duo, Double Wish; the project of childhood friends, Adam Sabolick and Philippe Andre.

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.