L.A. WITCH announce debut album & share new single 'Untitled'. LP set for release Sept 8thReverb-heavy punk sounds from emerging L.A. trio as they announce their debut album!Today L.A. Witch return with their reverb-heavy garage-punk sounds with new single 'Untitled' and news of their debut self-titled album. L.A. Witch is set for release Sept 8th via Suicide Squeeze. The band will be embarking on a headline UK tour this September. Listen to 'Untitled' here: https://soundcloud.com/suicide-squeeze-records/untitled-by-la-witch Embed code: <iframe width="100%" height="450" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/327895768&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_ comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true"></iframe> In the dimly lit interior of a small nightclub, where the stale smell of a thousand extinguished cigarettes drowns out the smell of spilt beer and broken dreams, a band plays against a backdrop of cheap golden tinsel. Outside, palm trees line the night’s horizon. In the years to come, the streets will swell into highways and interstates, but for now Los Angeles is still a young city growing daily with transplants from across the United States, all looking for a new life. It’s still a city largely cut off from the rest of the country, and in the years before the Manson family forever tarnishes the infinite hope of the Western enclave and before the Hell’s Angels of Altamont interrupt rock n’ roll’s peaceful trajectory with unprecedented violence, there is still a dreamy California sound for those dark rooms suffused with neon light. The three women of L.A. Witch wouldn’t be born for several decades, but their sound transports you back to those warm Californian nights in smoky rooms. The name is a partial misnomer. Though the band hails from Los Angeles, they do not partake in any sort of witchcraft. Yet their ability to conjure a specific time and place through their sound does suggest a kind of magic. On their eponymous debut album, L.A. Witch’s reverb-drenched guitar jangle and sultry vocals conjure the analog sound of a collector’s prized 45 from some short-lived footnote cult band. The melodies forgo the bubblegum pop for a druggy haze that straddles the line between seedy glory and ominous balladry; the production can’t afford Phil Spector’s wall-of-sound, but the instruments’ simple beauty provides an economic grace that renders studio trickery unnecessary; the lyrics seem more descendent of Johnny Cash’s first-person morality tales than the vacuous empty gestures of pre-fab pop bands. This isn’t music for the masses; it’s music for miscreants, burnouts, down-and-out dreamers, and obsessive historians. Album opener 'Kill My Baby Tonight' is the perfect introduction to the band’s marriage of ‘60s girls-in-the-garage charm and David Lynch’s surreal exposés of Southern California’s underbelly. Sade Sanchez’s black velvet vocals disguise the malicious intent of this murder ballad, with the thumping pulse of bassist Irita Pai, the slow-burn build of drummer Ellie English, and Sanchez’s desert guitar twang helping beguile the listener into becoming a willing accomplice to the narrator’s crimes. 'Brian' follows the opening track with a similarly graceful, if not somewhat ominous, slow-mo take on a well-worn jukebox 7”. It’s a vibe that permeates the entire album, from the early psychedelic hue of 13th Floor Elevators on tracks like 'You Love Nothing', through the motorik beat and fuzzed-out licks of 'Drive Your Car', to the grittier permutation of Mazzy Star’s sleepy beauty on 'Baby In Blue Jeans'. L.A. Witch was recorded at Hurley Studios in Costa Mesa and mixed in Highland Park, Los Angeles, though early incarnations of several songs from the album originally surfaced on limited edition singles released over the last several years. The band’s initial aspirations were humble. “We never really thought we would or could release an album,” the band says. “We were really just finding each other and finding our sound.” But after touring nearly non-stop for the last three years, L.A. Witch developed a singularly seductive, haunting, and wistful sound that enamored the garage rock, dream pop, psych, and broader indie communities. Suicide Squeeze Records is proud to release their debut album on September 8th, 2017. L.A. Witch is available on CD, digital formats, and 1500 LPs on translucent pink vinyl with a download card. Pre-order L.A. Witch here: http://store.suicidesqueeze.net L.A. Witch tracklist: 1. Kill My Baby Tonight 2. Brian 3. Untitled 4. You Love Nothing 5. Drive Your Car 6. Baby In Blue Jeans 7. Feel Alright 8. Good Guys 9. Get Lost See L.A. Witch live: 4/8 - Ace Hotel, Palm Springs CA 31/8 - Levitt Pavillion (MacArthur Park), LA 4/9 - Vera, Groningen 5/9 - Paradiso, Amsterdam 6/9 - Kinky Star, Ghent 7/9 - Kantime am Berghain, Berlin 8/9 - Burger Invasion: Cologne, Köln 9/9 - Burger Invasion: Molotow, Hamburg 11/9 - Le Cog D'Or, Olten 13/9 - Gonzo Club, Zurich 14/9 - Le Baraka, Clermont-Ferrand 15/9 - Festival TBC @ 013, Tilburg 16/9 - Le Batofar, Paris 17/9 - DIY Cafe, Lille 18/9 - The Crofters Right, Bristol UK 19/9 - Acid Box, Brighton UK 20/9 - Moth Club, London UK 21/9 - Mono, Glasgow UK 22/9 - Psych Festival, Liverpool UK 23/9 - Rotown, Rotterdam Links: Bandcamp Tumblr For more information please contact frankie@stereosanctity.co.uk / t. +44 7921 176502.
June 28, 2017 9:03am ET by Stereo Sanctity
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