L.A. WITCH announce new EP 'Octubre' set for release Nov 2nd via Suicide Squeeze Records & share first single "Haunting" online nowCalifornian grunge punk trio return with new EP set for release this week!OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASENEWS PROVIDED BY Stereo Sanctity L.A. WITCH Today Californian trio L.A. Witch are back with their reverb-heavy, grunge-punk sounds as they announce their new EP 'Octubre', which is set for release Nov 2nd via Suicide Squeeze Records. The band are sharing the first single from the record "Haunting" online now. Speaking about the new EP, L.A. Witch said "‘Octubre’ is a collection of older songs that we rarely play live, but wanted to revisit them since they’re dark and a bit spooky, and felt right for the season. We were excited to be able to work with Mr. Pharmacist aka Gregg Foreman, our first time working with a producer. We experimented with different textures and sounds for these songs, which you can really hear in “Haunting”. This EP feels more atmospheric, and perfect for Halloween." Listen to "Haunting" here:
There is no better season for these kinds of songs than the autumn, when the promises of summer have abated and the nights of reckoning grow longer. L.A. Witch seized the moment by revisiting a handful of their early long lost tracks and reshaping them into 'Octubre', a five-song EP that delves deeper into their darker side. Opener and lead single “Haunting” is a swaggering rumination on heroin, full of big ringing chords, swirling tremolo, and narcotic vocals. It’s more densely layered than anything the band have done in the past, owing in part to the engineering skills of Samuel Shea (Warbly Jets) and the production savvy of Gregg Foreman (Cat Power, Delta 72), but also as a result of the band’s premeditated deviation from bare bones recordings. “Because these are old songs—we don't play them live anymore but still wanted them to be heard—this was the perfect opportunity to get experimental with sounds and textures,” Sanchez says of the EP. Despite this new studio adventurism, the songs on 'Octubre' stay true to L.A. Witch’s vintage starkness. The obsessive love song “Sleep” still centers on the trio’s economic interplay, but the empty spaces between reverberating chords are filled with woozy whammy-barred guitar, as if tape bleed-through caught the ghost of some forgotten troubadour. The cryptic “BB’s Momma” gets bolstered by organ vibrato in its sultry verses and bombarded by bloody-knuckled piano in its climactic choruses. As the EP culminates with the acoustic ballad “Heart of Darkness” and the instrumental “Outro”, we hear echoes and melodic ether swell in the background, as if the magic conjured by L.A. Witch is beginning to take on a life of its own. 'Octubre' may be a record about unhealthy infatuations and debilitating love, but it’s also an inadvertent statement on the past and permanence. Offered to the world as a surprise digital release, it might suggest a kind of ephemera, but the underlying motive is to reinvent and bring a new life to these seminal songs from the band’s early years. Reimagined and reshaped, these songs not only represent the band’s beginnings but also serve as a teaser for the band’s future output. Suicide Squeeze Records is proud to offer up these songs to world digitally on November 2, 2018 and anticipate vinyl and CD editions sometime in 2019. See L.A. Witch live: 'Octubre' tracklist:
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November 7, 2018 12:53pm ET by Stereo Sanctity |