There is more than one artist with the name Wisp: 1. Wisp (aka. whirrwhore, Natalie R. Lu; born on August 6th 2004) is a US American shoegaze/alternative rock artist from San Francisco. Biography: Early life Raised in San Francisco, she began releasing music in 2023. Her debut single "Your Face" became viral on TikTok, charting on Billboard's Hot Hard Rock Songs. Her debut EP, Pandora, was released in April the following year. In August 2025, she released her debut studio album, If Not Winter. Lu grew up in San Francisco's Sunset District. She is of Thai and Taiwanese descent. As a teenager, she attended Wallenberg High School, where she drew musical inspiration from her modern band class and the yearly music and arts festival. Wisp was a computer science major in San Francisco State University when she started her musical career. 2023–2025: Career beginnings, Your Face, Pandora, If Not Winter Her debut single, "Your Face", was released on April 4, 2023. It went viral on TikTok and charted at number 8 on Billboard's Hot Hard Rock Songs going for a run of 15 weeks. A music video directed by Nick Vernet and Boni Mata premiered in November 2023, which takes place underwater. In March 2024, Jonah Krueger of Consequence said that Wisp "Is the Next Leader of the Shoegaze Revival". She released her first EP, Pandora, on April 5, 2024. In 2025, she featured on Photographic Memory's single "Heartstyle", from his album I Look at Her and Light Goes All Through Me. She released her debut album, If Not Winter, on August 1, 2025. She has taken heavy influence from bands such as Whirr, julie, Slowdive, my bloody valentine, Title Fight and Panchiko (which she recently went on tour with) who power Wisp’s extensive use of guitar effects blended with her muffled vocal melodies. Her musical influences also include the Cocteau Twins, Nothing, My Chemical Romance and Deftones. AllMusic describes Wisp as a "blend of crushing sonics and lighter-than-air vocals, Wisp's version of shoegaze envelops her listeners." Wisp prefers to categorize her music as nu gaze and alternative rock. Discography: Albums 2025.08.01: If Not Winter EPs 2024.04.05: Pandora https://soundcloud.com/wisp49305 https://www.instagram.com/whirrwhoreforlyfe/ https://www.tiktok.com/@i_am_wisp_ohyeah ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. Wisp (Reid Dunn) comes from Niagara Falls, New York. He makes electronic music that spans many genres, from jungle and experimental drum n bass to ambient and downtempo electronica. Nostalgic computer games bear an influence on his music. He began releasing music for free in 2003, in the form of mp3s on netlabels, but has since been signed to Sublight Records, and more recently (2008) he signed with Rephlex. His free mp3 releases are, however, still available on The Wisp Archive He has other releases under the names RWD and Dwaalicht. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. wisp (AKA hexd, ghastlyup) is a Digicore/hyperpop, jersey club, dariacore, and rock artist from the United States. They released their debut album Brumal on the 17th of November, 2023. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4. Wisp is an atmospheric black metal / funeral doom side project of Joe Hawker (aka Ethereal Shroud).