Californian trio L.A. Witch are bringing their grunge-soaked post-punk sounds back to the UK this June with shows in London, Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester & Oxford. The band's debut self-titled album is out now via Suicide Squeeze Records & you can watch the video for their single "Drive Your Car" below here.

Watch "Drive Your Car" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yQ7YfAgy9k
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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.

See L.A. Witch live:
2/6/2018 - Saint Petersburg, Mod Club RU
6/6/2018 - Roma, Wishlist IT
8/6/2018 - Riegsee, Raut Oak Festival DE
9/6/2018 - Munich, Milla DE
11/6/2018 - Wien, Arena AT
12/6/2018 - Prague, Kasarna Karlin CZ
13/6/2018 - Dresden, Ostpol DE
14/6/2018 - Budapest, A38 Ship HU
15/6/2018 - Kladovo, Border Rock Festival SB
16/6/2018 - Beograd, Boogaloo Festival SB
19/6/2018 - Ravenna, Hana-Bi IT
21/6/2018 - Bordeaux, Astrødome FR
22/6/2018 - Lille, La Cave Aux Poètes FR
23/6/2018 - London, Styx UK
25/6/2018 - Bristol, Old England UK
26/6/2018 - Birmingham, Castle & Falcon UK
27/6/2018 - Manchester, Soup Kitchen UK
28/6/2018 - Oxford, The Cellar UK
29/6/2018 - Lisbon, Sabotage PT
30/6/2018 - Mallorca, Festival (Jazzbah) ES
15/11/2018 - Brussels, AB BE *
16/11/2018 - Amsterdam, Parasidso Noord NL*
17/11/2018 - Hamburg, Knust DE *
19/11/2018 - Gothenburg, Pustervik SE*
20/11/2018 - Oslo, Rockerfeller NO*
21/11/2018 - Stockholm, Nalen SE*
23/11/2018 - Helsinki, Tavastia FI*
25/11/2018 - Copenhagen, Grå Hal DK*
26/11/2018 - Berlin, SO36 DE*
27/11/2018 - Warsaw, Hybrydy PL*
28/11/2018 - Dresden, Beatpol DE*
29/11/2018 - Vienna, Arena AT*
1/12/2018 - Munich, Strøm DE*
2/12/2018 - Milan, Legend IT*
3/12/2018 - Villeurbanne, Transbordeur FR*
4/12/2018 - Zürich, Dynamo CH*
6/12/2018 - Karlsruje, Substage DE*
7/12/2018 - Osnabrück, Rosenhof DE*
8/12/2018 - Köln, Luxor DE*
9/12/2018 - Paris, La Maroquinerie FR*
* - supporting Uncle Acid + The Deadbeats

Praise for L.A. Witch:
“This decade’s rock ’n’ roll heroes are L.A. Witch” (9/10) - Long Live Vinyl
“Smouldering shoegaze” - The Guardian
“The music is reverb-heavy psych-rock as though under a hypnotic spell” (4) - Financial Times
“L.A. Witch have perfected the sound that’s been prevalent on their early EPs: you can almost imagine yourself driving along the Pacific Highway in some neo-noir thriller” (4) - DORK
“A convincing first stab” (4) - DIY
“It’s clear that the three women of L.A. Witch are here to take you on a hazy journey eep into the Hollywood hills of a day gone by” (7/10) - Louder Than War
“L.A. Witch cast a heady spell, straddling realms of LA noir imbued with a spectral psychobilly twang” (4) - Record Collector
“Their self-titled debut is one that bubbles with retro rock fuelled passion” - (7/10) - The Line of Best Fit
“The additive music crawls insidiously under your skin” (7/5/10) - The 405

For more information please contact frankie@stereosanctity.co.uk