“I Wish You Well,” the second single from Mylo Bybee’s upcoming Revisions EP, is an uncanny encapsulation of the rhythmically majestic guitar heroics of Sup Pop-era Band Of Horses and latter-period Manchester Orchestra. And while that might imply some calculation the band’s part, the song’s origins couldn’t be less so. They sprung from years of living off the grid on Alaska’s St. Lawrence Island.
“I wrote this song sitting in my living room, staring across the water toward the Russian peninsula, watching beluga whales pass by and capturing a mental image of what I wanted to last forever,” says Tyler Schlagenhauf, vocalist/guitarist for the Boise, Idaho-based quartet. “This song is an ode to what once was—and to having one more opportunity for that type of euphoria.”
Schlagenhauf describes his former home as a place where “silence is louder, distances stretch endlessly, and each day feels both brutally isolating and fiercely alive.” Much like its geographic inspiration, “I Wish You Well” overtakes the listener like a quiet storm—one with distinct outflow boundaries.
Filmed while the band was recording the EP at Den Studios in Boise, the video for the track “was about capturing the truth of the recording process: raw, exhausting and emotional,” says Schlagenhauf. “That intensity only exists in the moment.”
We’re proud to premiere Mylo Bybee’s “I Wish You Well.” Look for Revisions on February 20 via Gold Ship.
—Hobart Rowland
