A document of the beautiful, short-lived urgency of the phenomenon known as
One Last Wish. The fleeting and desperate nature of the band's existence emerges in this, their one and only recording, made in the few months they were together in 1986. The sound is like a hybrid of all the elements of their other musical projects -- sort of a logical extension of where
Rites of Spring's latest material left off, mixed with what
Happy Go Licky and
Fugazi would later do.
Guy's poignant and stirring vocals are as fierce/delicate as ever, and the music is churning, well composed, and compassionate all at once. And yet there's something else to this music -- some feeling that is indescribable, something that can only be felt. ~ Blake Butler