Wingfish captures 23 years of rock, memory, and renewal with new album “Dyads”

“Dyads” is more than just a collection of songs by Wingfish; the 10-track, 54-minute album feels like a musical archive being opened and given new life. Available on streaming services and Bandcamp in November 2025, the record is a blend of new studio recordings, re-recorded material and live performances that ties the band’s past, present and future together. At its heart, Wingfish is rock, but it explores many different colours of the genre without becoming predictable. The emphasis is deliberately on the energy of a real performance rather than studio perfection to the nth degree, giving us an album that is lived-in, immediate and human. As you move through “Dyads,” the story becomes clearer and clearer: this is a band looking backwards without getting stuck in its history.

“Gentle Ally,” which opens Wingfish, sets the inviting but purposeful atmosphere. It’s one of the two brand new compositions on the album, and it shows us where the band is today but also retains the nature of the older works. “Sacred Place” comes naturally, adding to that feeling with another fresh perspective and reinforcing the album’s balance of reflection and forward motion. The pairing of the two opening tracks works particularly well because neither one sounds out of place with the band’s history. From there, “Blown (2025 Version)” takes us back, revisiting a composition originally released on “Scout” in 2019. The new version allows the track to breathe again, linking an earlier chapter with the musicianship of the present. Together, these three selections set up the central idea behind “Dyads” old material can keep evolving when the people making it do, too.

Then there is another level to the live recordings. “I Know Everything (Live 24)” has the immediacy that Wingfish deliberately foregrounds so that the performance is part of the identity of the album. Instead of making rock sound too polished, we get the feeling of being in the room as the band drives the material forward. That energy carries into “100 Ways To Go (Live 24)” where the live setting adds urgency and movement to the record. It also creates the link between Jesper and Thomas, musical collaborators since the early 1990s, and the presence of Jesper’s son Johan on other songs suggests a whole new chapter.

What’s interesting about “Dyads,” though, is how its title perfectly sums up the relationships within the music. There is one long-standing creative partnership to be found in Jesper and Thomas and another generation brought into the band’s musical conversation in Jesper and Johan. The end result is an album that doesn’t feel like a look back but more like a bridge between eras. By mixing new recordings with performances from various times, Wingfish gives us a real taste of where the band has been and where it might be going next. “Dyads” marks the 23rd anniversary of the band’s musical history, but it also heralds the trio that could determine the future of Wingfish.