Wishbone Zoe has been writing and performing as a solo project and a band since approx. 2010.
She has released three full-length albums of her own work, All Of These Oddities (2014), Fossil’s Dream (2016), and French Of The Bird (Sad Cactus, 2020), an EP, Micro-Mirage (2024), five short albums with a punk trio called EIEIEIO, and has contributed bass, vocals, and lyrics to a number of recording projects and touring bands.
She has played a wide variety of venues on bills with an even wider variety of performers -
from song-centric shows at such Northeastern folk strongholds as Club Passim, Signature Sounds’ Parlor Room and The Dreamaway Lodge with The Suitcase Junket, The Nields, Peter Mulvey, Dave Champagne, Death Vessel, Heather Maloney, and Kaki King, to multi-media exploratory performances alongside some of the most envelope-pushing artists working, ie: Andrea Pensado, Bobb Hatt, Id M Theft Able, Matt Luczak, Fred Cracklin and Neil Cloaca Young. In rock form, she has shared stages and basement humidity with bands like Mal Devisa, Lucy, Linear Downfall, Space Camp, Stice, Prewn, Rushadicus, Landowner, And The Kids, Bella’s Bartok and Taxidermists.
As a teenager she studied at Institute For The Musical Arts’ summer rock camps in Western MA under Fanny’s June Millington, Roma Baran, Erin McKeown, Evelyn Harris, and Janelle Burdell, alongside fellow students who would later form luminous mainstays of Northeastern rock such as Mal Devisa, Jax Hollow, Prewn, And The Kids, Kalliope Jones.
A hard turn from her 2020 sound-collage concept album French Of The Bird and its accompanying short film, Wishbone’s upcoming 4th release Blue Distances is a stripped-down album focusing on instrumental performance and song-structure, mining themes of lost trust, lonesome travel and vignettes of the Western MA music scene. It’s a cryer.
On solo Wishbone:
On EIEIEIO:
“EIEIEIO’s sound is a vision of what pop could be...With brevity always at the forefront, EIEIEIO create tangled music that never feels grandiose or overthought.“ - Dan Goldin, Post-Trash
For booking:
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She has released three full-length albums of her own work, All Of These Oddities (2014), Fossil’s Dream (2016), and French Of The Bird (Sad Cactus, 2020), an EP, Micro-Mirage (2024), five short albums with a punk trio called EIEIEIO, and has contributed bass, vocals, and lyrics to a number of recording projects and touring bands.
She has played a wide variety of venues on bills with an even wider variety of performers -
from song-centric shows at such Northeastern folk strongholds as Club Passim, Signature Sounds’ Parlor Room and The Dreamaway Lodge with The Suitcase Junket, The Nields, Peter Mulvey, Dave Champagne, Death Vessel, Heather Maloney, and Kaki King, to multi-media exploratory performances alongside some of the most envelope-pushing artists working, ie: Andrea Pensado, Bobb Hatt, Id M Theft Able, Matt Luczak, Fred Cracklin and Neil Cloaca Young. In rock form, she has shared stages and basement humidity with bands like Mal Devisa, Lucy, Linear Downfall, Space Camp, Stice, Prewn, Rushadicus, Landowner, And The Kids, Bella’s Bartok and Taxidermists.
As a teenager she studied at Institute For The Musical Arts’ summer rock camps in Western MA under Fanny’s June Millington, Roma Baran, Erin McKeown, Evelyn Harris, and Janelle Burdell, alongside fellow students who would later form luminous mainstays of Northeastern rock such as Mal Devisa, Jax Hollow, Prewn, And The Kids, Kalliope Jones.
A hard turn from her 2020 sound-collage concept album French Of The Bird and its accompanying short film, Wishbone’s upcoming 4th release Blue Distances is a stripped-down album focusing on instrumental performance and song-structure, mining themes of lost trust, lonesome travel and vignettes of the Western MA music scene. It’s a cryer.
On solo Wishbone:
(”Drivedrivedrive”): ebbs and flows between robo-tuned synths and sweet but sour vocals - Al Engelbrecht, Secret Wine Press
“The Amherst musician (and animator, videographer and poet) uses her EP Micro-Mirage almost as a lure, on three songs that are distinctive, and distinctly different. (On “Microwomb”): “she talk-sings her lyrics over a boom-bap beat and the whirring, clanking industrial sound of an MRI machine“...(On “Find Out Why”): Zoë replaces the loping, bass-heavy instrumentation of the original with prismatic layers of her voice“ - Eric Danton, Freak Scene
On EIEIEIO:
“(Gorgeous Split is) part spontaneous combustion...part spoken word poetry...EIEIEIO manages to thread a needle of making spontaneous music that at the same time feels intentional and timeless” - Jon Shina, The Shoestring
“EIEIEIO’s sound is a vision of what pop could be...With brevity always at the forefront, EIEIEIO create tangled music that never feels grandiose or overthought.“ - Dan Goldin, Post-Trash
“...a zany and untamed musical abandon that roars from the speakers almost breathlessly...with Hella/Lightning Bolt clatter and intensity...their tightly wound execution is met with an almost absurdity in structure and wit that permeates everything“ - Kris Handel, Post-Trash
For booking:
wishbonezoe@gmail.com
