- 1Oliver Kahn
- 2The Purpose Of Wind Chimes
- 3Pigeon Superstition
- 4Live Love Leave
- 5Ballerinas
- 6The Magician, Pt. 1
- 7Friends In The Music Business
- 8Lotus
- 9Whirlpool
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When Gilles Demolder (Oathbreaker, Wiegedood) first introduced Siem Reap with Now What?, it felt like overhearing someone whisper into a dictaphone: raw, unfiltered, and a little too honest. Wishin’ I Was Fishin’, his second album, doesn’t abandon that intimacy but blows it wide open. Written together with longtime friends & collaborators Wim Coppers and Jasper Hollevoet, the songs trade lo-fi solitude for something sharper and more dynamic, without losing the crooked grin behind the sadness.
The record opens with Oliver Kahn, where Demolder compares his own childhood scars and a crushing breakup to the rage of the legendary German goalkeeper. It’s a sports metaphor that’s both devastating and absurd. That same balance runs through The Purpose of Wind Chimes, which finds an odd sort of peace in the memory of a chain-smoking grandfather releasing his parakeets, turning family grief into something both tragic and funny.
On Live Love Leave, gentrifiers and wine-bar culture become the target, as bar room ambiance collides with bitter observations about privilege and belonging. Ballerinas is a different kind of confrontation. It's an open letter to himself, telling the artist to shut up and stop whining. Then there’s Friends in the Music Business, a song that tears into the small talk, cockroach hotels, and ego trips of touring life with a venom that feels earned.
Elsewhere, Lotus digs into the half-truths and facades of growing up, peeling back layers with a mix of tenderness and contempt, while Whirlpool closes the record in a haze of circular self-sabotage. A song that feels like staring at the ceiling at 4 a.m., caught in loops you can’t break. Each track plays like a short story: too specific to be fictional, too strange to be entirely made up.
What ties everything together is Demolder’s voice, plainspoken and dry, never afraid to sit in contradictions; shame and humor, ego and collapse, grief and absurdity. Wishin’ I Was Fishin’ isn’t a clean break from his past in heavy music, but another kind of heaviness entirely: one dressed in bathrobes, bird metaphors, and late-night karaoke glow, holding a mirror up and laughing quietly at what it sees.
Gilles Demolder - Voice, Classical & Electric Guitar, Organ, Synthesizer
Jasper Hollevoet - Bass, Backing Vocals
Wim Coppers - Drums, Vibraphone, Glockenspiel, Backing Vocals
All songs written by Gilles Demolder & arranged with help of Wim Coppers & Jasper Hollevoet
Recorded in the spring of 2023 by Michaël Neyt at Jetson Studio, Kortrijk, BE
Mixed & Mastered by Jack Shirley at The Atomic Garden, Oakland, CA
Album art by Canemorto
Layout by Dehn Sora
The record opens with Oliver Kahn, where Demolder compares his own childhood scars and a crushing breakup to the rage of the legendary German goalkeeper. It’s a sports metaphor that’s both devastating and absurd. That same balance runs through The Purpose of Wind Chimes, which finds an odd sort of peace in the memory of a chain-smoking grandfather releasing his parakeets, turning family grief into something both tragic and funny.
On Live Love Leave, gentrifiers and wine-bar culture become the target, as bar room ambiance collides with bitter observations about privilege and belonging. Ballerinas is a different kind of confrontation. It's an open letter to himself, telling the artist to shut up and stop whining. Then there’s Friends in the Music Business, a song that tears into the small talk, cockroach hotels, and ego trips of touring life with a venom that feels earned.
Elsewhere, Lotus digs into the half-truths and facades of growing up, peeling back layers with a mix of tenderness and contempt, while Whirlpool closes the record in a haze of circular self-sabotage. A song that feels like staring at the ceiling at 4 a.m., caught in loops you can’t break. Each track plays like a short story: too specific to be fictional, too strange to be entirely made up.
What ties everything together is Demolder’s voice, plainspoken and dry, never afraid to sit in contradictions; shame and humor, ego and collapse, grief and absurdity. Wishin’ I Was Fishin’ isn’t a clean break from his past in heavy music, but another kind of heaviness entirely: one dressed in bathrobes, bird metaphors, and late-night karaoke glow, holding a mirror up and laughing quietly at what it sees.
Gilles Demolder - Voice, Classical & Electric Guitar, Organ, Synthesizer
Jasper Hollevoet - Bass, Backing Vocals
Wim Coppers - Drums, Vibraphone, Glockenspiel, Backing Vocals
All songs written by Gilles Demolder & arranged with help of Wim Coppers & Jasper Hollevoet
Recorded in the spring of 2023 by Michaël Neyt at Jetson Studio, Kortrijk, BE
Mixed & Mastered by Jack Shirley at The Atomic Garden, Oakland, CA
Album art by Canemorto
Layout by Dehn Sora
