THE WYTCHES SHARE "CRYING CLOWN" ALBUM TRACK
THE WYTCHES SHARE "CRYING CLOWN" ALBUM TRACK & EERIE ACOUSTIC VIDEO VIA AV CLUB DEBUT ALBUM ANNABEL DREAM READER OUT AUGUST 26 ON PARTISAN RECORDS ON TOUR NOW W/ CLOUD NOTHINGS + NEWLY ADDED PITCHFORK FESTIVAL AFTERPARTY LISTEN & WATCH: Compare the heavy, sludgy album version of "Crying Clown" to the haunting acoustic performance of the same song shot on VHSvia
AV Club
or Soundcloud or YouTube LISTEN: "Burn Out The Bruise" on last week's
NPR All Songs Considered
, highlighted by
NPR
for its "dark heavy metal and moody surfer rock" LISTEN: "Wire Frame Mattress" via
Pitchfork
or Soundcloud
"Punky aggression amid the fuzz tone" -New York Times "A primordial blues-ooze that suggests Jack White if his music were actually as goth as his haircuts" - Pitchfork
"Head weirdo Kristian Bell has a way with words, snarling streaming poetry" - SPIN (Best New Artists of July 2014) "Raw-throat punk, stoner/doom psych, and Bad Seeds swagger, with perhaps just the tiniest hint of Wicker Man folk" - Brooklyn Vegan (50 Artists We're Excited To See at SXSW) "Rock and roll magic" - KEXP
Formed in Brighton in 2011,The Wytches comprises Kristian Bell (vocals, guitar), Dan Rumsey (bass, vocals) and Gianni Honey (drums). Led by Bell's luminous lyricism, feral delivery and overdriven, surf-like guitar bends, the trio create a sound that is at once raucous and unruly, and yet decorated with semi-automatic poetry and authentic emotional clout.
Having left Peterborough after feeling stifled by their hometown's inward-looking hardcore scene, Bell and the semi-professional poker playing Honey relocated to Brighton in the autumn of 2011, applying to the city's university before enlisting Bournemouth-raised, aspiring adventure novelist Rumsey on bass - the sole applicant of an advert placed on campus. From the outset promoting their own shows in the city, The Wytches have never lost the DIY spirit of their hardcore origins: arranging their own tours; printing flyers; pressing their first single, "Digsaw;" inviting friend of the band Samuel Gull to create their artwork; and producing their own videos - all in spite of squeezed funds.
It is this relentlessness and resilience that has led to The Wytches headlining countless shows across the UK and Europe to date, acting as chief support to Blood Red Shoes, The Cribs, Drenge, METZ, Japandroids, amongst others. In 2013 the band released a number of singles and EPs on London's Hate Hate Hate Records ("Beehive Queen," Thunder Lizard Revisited EP, "Robe for Juda"), before attracting the attention of Heavenly Recordings in the UK and Partisan Records in the USA, who will release their debut album, Annabel Dream Reader, on August 25 (UK) / August 26 (US).
Recorded at Liam Watson's 8-track analogue ToeRag Studios in Hackney, Annabel Dream Reader was tracked in two days under the supervision of producer Bill Ryder-Jones (ex-The Coral). Comprising thirteen songs, Annabel Dream Reader sees the three-piece accomplish a dark and heady sound that embraces the black arts and the more extreme limits of rock, but which is never prescriptively macabre. Far from it, the band displays a broadness of influences - all at once the songs reference surf, grunge, metalcore, spy movie scores.
Bell admits to being inspired more by singer-songwriters (Elliott Smith, Leonard Cohen, Roland S. Howard) than specific bands, and already he is an assured manipulator of his tools, combining Egyptianesque harmonic-minor scales with vivid, assonant wordplay, and utilising his voice as an instrument in its own right. Recording to rolling magnetic tape at ToeRag - with little room for error - lends an honesty and immediacy to the trio's performances, while Ryder-Jones supplies the softer songs with flourishes of organ, and allows the self-confessed 'obnoxiously heavy' sections to detonate freely.
Not ones to rest on their laurels, The Wytches admit a strong desire to erase and 'switch up' their sound with each album - plans are already afoot for a more intricate, more instrumentally diverse second record. Returning from Austin's SXSW Festival on a wave of praise from the likes of The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, FUSE, SPIN and Flavorwire, the band have continued touring extensively throughout 2014 - taking in the UK, Europe and the USA - while promoting Annabel Dream Reader and untethering a slew of singles beginning with a limited edition cassette, 'Gravedweller," their first for Partisan. In July The Wytches ventured back to North America to tour with Cloud Nothings and METZ. The last single, 'Wire Frame Mattress', was released on 7th July by Partisan on limited 7", with brilliantly idiosyncratic cover art by Samuel Gull and an eery, unhinged video directed by legendary rock photographer Steve Gullick.
Tracklist: 1. Digsaw2. Wide At Midnight3. Gravedweller4. Fragile Male For Sale5. Burn Out The Bruise6. Wire Frame Mattress7. Beehive Queen8. Weights and Ties9. Part Time Model10. Summer Again11. Robe For Juda12. Crying Clown13. Track 13
Tour Dates:07/16 - Lawrence, KS - The Granada Theatre *
07/17 - St. Louis, MO - The Luminary *7/18 - Chicago, IL - Schuba's (Pitchfork Fest afterparty)*
07/21 - Toronto, ON - Drake Underground
07/23 - Boston, MA - Great Scott
07/24 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge
07/25 - Brooklyn, NY - Glasslands
07/26 - Philadelphia, PA - Boot & Saddle
08/01 - Derbyshire, UK - Y Not Festival
08/07 - North Yorkshire, UK - Beacons Festival08/16 - London, UK - Oslo Hackney^08/17 - Bristol, UK - The Fleece^08/18 - Liverpool, UK - The Kazimier^08/19 - Brighton, UK - Concorde 2^08/22 - Reading, UK - Reading Festival08/27 - London, UK - Rough Trade East 08/30 - Dorset, UK - End of the Road Festival
08/31 - Yorkshire, UK - Bingley Music Live
09/07 - Isle of Wight, UK - Bestival09/12 - Santarem, Portugal - Reverence Festival09/14 - London, UK - On Blackheath Festival09/15 & 09/21 - Tillburg, Netherlands - Incubate
* = w/ Cloud Nothings
^ = w/ The Growlershttps://www.facebook.com/thewytcheshttps://twitter.com/TheWytches http://instagram.com/thewytches# https://soundcloud.com/thewytches http://www.partisanrecords.com/artists/the-wytches/
"Punky aggression amid the fuzz tone" -New York Times "A primordial blues-ooze that suggests Jack White if his music were actually as goth as his haircuts" - Pitchfork
"Head weirdo Kristian Bell has a way with words, snarling streaming poetry" - SPIN (Best New Artists of July 2014) "Raw-throat punk, stoner/doom psych, and Bad Seeds swagger, with perhaps just the tiniest hint of Wicker Man folk" - Brooklyn Vegan (50 Artists We're Excited To See at SXSW) "Rock and roll magic" - KEXP
Formed in Brighton in 2011,The Wytches comprises Kristian Bell (vocals, guitar), Dan Rumsey (bass, vocals) and Gianni Honey (drums). Led by Bell's luminous lyricism, feral delivery and overdriven, surf-like guitar bends, the trio create a sound that is at once raucous and unruly, and yet decorated with semi-automatic poetry and authentic emotional clout.
Having left Peterborough after feeling stifled by their hometown's inward-looking hardcore scene, Bell and the semi-professional poker playing Honey relocated to Brighton in the autumn of 2011, applying to the city's university before enlisting Bournemouth-raised, aspiring adventure novelist Rumsey on bass - the sole applicant of an advert placed on campus. From the outset promoting their own shows in the city, The Wytches have never lost the DIY spirit of their hardcore origins: arranging their own tours; printing flyers; pressing their first single, "Digsaw;" inviting friend of the band Samuel Gull to create their artwork; and producing their own videos - all in spite of squeezed funds.
It is this relentlessness and resilience that has led to The Wytches headlining countless shows across the UK and Europe to date, acting as chief support to Blood Red Shoes, The Cribs, Drenge, METZ, Japandroids, amongst others. In 2013 the band released a number of singles and EPs on London's Hate Hate Hate Records ("Beehive Queen," Thunder Lizard Revisited EP, "Robe for Juda"), before attracting the attention of Heavenly Recordings in the UK and Partisan Records in the USA, who will release their debut album, Annabel Dream Reader, on August 25 (UK) / August 26 (US).
Recorded at Liam Watson's 8-track analogue ToeRag Studios in Hackney, Annabel Dream Reader was tracked in two days under the supervision of producer Bill Ryder-Jones (ex-The Coral). Comprising thirteen songs, Annabel Dream Reader sees the three-piece accomplish a dark and heady sound that embraces the black arts and the more extreme limits of rock, but which is never prescriptively macabre. Far from it, the band displays a broadness of influences - all at once the songs reference surf, grunge, metalcore, spy movie scores.
Bell admits to being inspired more by singer-songwriters (Elliott Smith, Leonard Cohen, Roland S. Howard) than specific bands, and already he is an assured manipulator of his tools, combining Egyptianesque harmonic-minor scales with vivid, assonant wordplay, and utilising his voice as an instrument in its own right. Recording to rolling magnetic tape at ToeRag - with little room for error - lends an honesty and immediacy to the trio's performances, while Ryder-Jones supplies the softer songs with flourishes of organ, and allows the self-confessed 'obnoxiously heavy' sections to detonate freely.
Not ones to rest on their laurels, The Wytches admit a strong desire to erase and 'switch up' their sound with each album - plans are already afoot for a more intricate, more instrumentally diverse second record. Returning from Austin's SXSW Festival on a wave of praise from the likes of The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, FUSE, SPIN and Flavorwire, the band have continued touring extensively throughout 2014 - taking in the UK, Europe and the USA - while promoting Annabel Dream Reader and untethering a slew of singles beginning with a limited edition cassette, 'Gravedweller," their first for Partisan. In July The Wytches ventured back to North America to tour with Cloud Nothings and METZ. The last single, 'Wire Frame Mattress', was released on 7th July by Partisan on limited 7", with brilliantly idiosyncratic cover art by Samuel Gull and an eery, unhinged video directed by legendary rock photographer Steve Gullick.
Tracklist: 1. Digsaw2. Wide At Midnight3. Gravedweller4. Fragile Male For Sale5. Burn Out The Bruise6. Wire Frame Mattress7. Beehive Queen8. Weights and Ties9. Part Time Model10. Summer Again11. Robe For Juda12. Crying Clown13. Track 13
Tour Dates:07/16 - Lawrence, KS - The Granada Theatre *
07/17 - St. Louis, MO - The Luminary *7/18 - Chicago, IL - Schuba's (Pitchfork Fest afterparty)*
07/21 - Toronto, ON - Drake Underground
07/23 - Boston, MA - Great Scott
07/24 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge
07/25 - Brooklyn, NY - Glasslands
07/26 - Philadelphia, PA - Boot & Saddle
08/01 - Derbyshire, UK - Y Not Festival
08/07 - North Yorkshire, UK - Beacons Festival08/16 - London, UK - Oslo Hackney^08/17 - Bristol, UK - The Fleece^08/18 - Liverpool, UK - The Kazimier^08/19 - Brighton, UK - Concorde 2^08/22 - Reading, UK - Reading Festival08/27 - London, UK - Rough Trade East 08/30 - Dorset, UK - End of the Road Festival
08/31 - Yorkshire, UK - Bingley Music Live
09/07 - Isle of Wight, UK - Bestival09/12 - Santarem, Portugal - Reverence Festival09/14 - London, UK - On Blackheath Festival09/15 & 09/21 - Tillburg, Netherlands - Incubate
* = w/ Cloud Nothings
^ = w/ The Growlershttps://www.facebook.com/thewytcheshttps://twitter.com/TheWytches http://instagram.com/thewytches# https://soundcloud.com/thewytches http://www.partisanrecords.com/artists/the-wytches/
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