One Last Wish – 1986

Artist: One Last Wish
Album: 1986
Recorded: November 6–8, 1986
First Released: 1999
Genre: Post-Hardcore / Emo / Washington, D.C. Punk
Label: Dischord Records
Producer: Ian MacKaye & One Last Wish Dischord Records

About the Album:
1986 is the only album by One Last Wish, a very short-lived Washington, D.C. band formed after Rites of Spring broke up. The group recorded all 12 songs at Inner Ear Studios in November 1986, but the material sat unreleased for years. The full session finally came out in 1999, making it a kind of missing link between Rites of Spring and the music that would soon lead into Fugazi. Dischord Records

Members:
Guy Picciotto – vocals, guitar
Michael Hampton – guitar, vocals
Edward Janney – bass, vocals
Brendan Canty – drums
Ian MacKaye – producer Dischord Records

Cultural Facts:

• One Last Wish existed for only about four months and played just six shows before breaking up. Dischord Records
• Guy Picciotto, Edward Janney and Brendan Canty had all been in Rites of Spring; Michael Hampton had played in The Faith and Embrace. Dischord Records
• The band’s final activity was recording these 12 songs at Inner Ear Studios, the Arlington studio central to the Dischord/DC punk scene. Dischord Records
• Dischord initially held the recordings back partly because the label was trying to move away from a reputation for releasing records by bands that had already broken up. Dischord Records
• Brendan Canty later joined Fugazi, and Guy Picciotto followed soon after, making this record an especially direct bridge between Rites of Spring and Fugazi. Wikipedia
• The album did not receive its first 12-inch vinyl release until 2008, more than two decades after it was recorded. Dischord Records

Notable Tracks: “Burning in the Undertow,” “Break to Broken,” “Friendship Is Far,” “My Better Half,” “Loss Like a Seed,” “One Last Wish,” “Home Is the Place” Dischord Records