When Blair Howerton brought bandmates Chance Williams and Josh Malett together to work on Why Bonnie’s sophomore LP, the first song she showed them set the tone for what was to come. “Fake Out” is about “trying to be authentic in a world that makes it impossible to be so,” and fittingly, it’s the loudest song on Why Bonnie’s bold new album, Wish on the Bone.

On the chorus, Howerton wails against a building wall of sound that overtakes her by the song’s end: “It’s not my face/ I imitate”. The revelation has clouded Howerton’s mind in the two years since Why Bonnie released their debut, ’90 in November’, an album praised for its nostalgic depictions of wide-open spaces that earned comparisons to Waxahatchee and Wednesday.