Wish You Were Here is the moniker of LA-based musician Jesse Barnett, For years he’s fronted hardcore behemoth Stick To Your Guns, and although Wish You Were Here couldn't be more sonically different, the project's origins actually go back to Barnett's earliest musical roots.

A love of Paul Simon preceded his introduction to punk rock and engrained Barnett's musical DNA with the idea that volume is not the only way to achieve impactful, compelling songs. The beginning of Wish You Were Here was less an intentional activity and more a necessary response to personal turmoil within his life--a place to find solace and process feelings through creativity, the way so many musicians do.