"Your Face" is a song by the American musician Wisp. It was released on April 4, 2023 through Music Soup and Interscope Records as the lead single from her debut extended play (EP), Pandora (2024). The song was written by Wisp, while production was handled by Grayskies. Natalie Lu later went under the moniker, Wisp, and shifted to making music. Inspired by Whirr, Wisp sang over Grayskies' beat. The song gained traction on social media platforms.
Classified as a shoegaze song, "Your Face" is driven by a "metallic luster" of "towering" guitars. Its lyrics are surrounded around a person that Wisp loved talking to. Following its release, the song went viral on TikTok, which led to Wisp signing to Interscope Records. The track was later included in her debut extended play (EP) Pandora (2024). A music video directed by Nick Vernet and Boni Mata premiered in November 2023.
After a friend's recommendation, Natalie R. Lu Wisp recorded vocals over an instrumental by the producer Grayskies using a pair of Apple earbuds, despite having no prior experience in music production. In a publication by Complex, Wisp described how her long-standing love for listening to music led to her becoming an "active participant" when she recorded "Your Face". "Your Face" is 3 minutes and 47 seconds long. The lyrics of "Your Face" see Wisp singing about someone she liked and situations that may restrain that love. Steffanee Wang writing for Nylon described the song as "a banging guitar line and crashing waves of drums and vocals". Wisp notedthat she was interested in making music that people would empathize with. In an interview with Nylon, Lu stated that while she wishes to keep the true meaning of the song a secret, she "wrote [it] about someone [she] enjoyed talking to" and that it was about "circumstances that hold you back from expressing your love". "Your Face" has been described as shoegaze, nu gaze, and alternative rock. In an interview with Los Angeles Times, Wisp said "One of my main concerns when âÂÂYour Faceâ came out was wanting to make music that people could relate to".
In an interview with Adam Davidson of Flood Magazine, Wisp explained that she initially composed the song for enjoyment, "When I wrote âÂÂYour Face,â it was honestly just for fun. I was in college at the time and I didnâÂÂt have any intention of pursuing music." She would also speak about how she promoted the song, "One night when I was scrolling TikTok, I saw that JugglerâÂÂanother band thatâÂÂs based in LAâÂÂhad posted a carousel with their song, and IâÂÂd never seen people promote music on TikTok like this." "Your Face" was released on April 4, 2023 through Music Soup and Interscope Records.
Writing for Complex, Olive Soki-Kavwahirehi wrote that the song "exemplifies all of the winning properties" of shoegaze, and that it "indicate[s] a very promising future for the young artist". Andy Von Pip of Under the Radar called it "a low-key rock song of the summer". While Jonah Krueger of Consequence said the song taps into a fuzzy [feeling] comparable to the gazing itch of a pedal board.
"Your Face" would go viral on TikTok, and sits at over 80 million streams on Spotify as of November 2024. The song peaked at number 8 on Billboard's Hot Hard Rock Songs chart in 2023, marking Wisp's first top 10 entry. The song later culminated at number 7 on the aforementioned chart during the week of March 9, 2024. In the months following its release, Wisp gained a cult following, which led to her signing to Interscope Records. In 2025, it was certified gold by the Brazilian Association of Record Producers (ABPD).
The official music video for "Your Face" was released on November 21, 2023. It was directed by Boni Mata and Nick Vernet. The video takes place underwater. Steffanee Wang of Nylon, wrote "includes no faces, just bodies swimming and gliding among swaying seaweed" with "interspersed shots of a figure with a sheet draped over its face". Wang also commented "The closest we get to maybe seeing the artist are interspersed shots of a figure with a sheet draped over its face. The intense obscurity even bleeds into the videoâÂÂs end credits, where all the names are smudged out."