I'm not sure if this really deserves a thread but there seems to be so few places where any info is gathered about this "scene" that I just wanted to see what you all thought.
My friends have been into some of this stuff (everyone I know seems to agree that Salem is the best one: http://www.myspace.com/s4lem), and I know that it's a mostly internet scene, very few of these guys play live (I know someone who had a hell of a time trying to book a show for one of these guys), and they're all into mining the same well of ideas including obscure names that include numbers and a sound that's basically goth minimalism with screwed and chopped drums in there.
I'm digging Salem myself. What else do you guys know about this stuff?
― filthy dylan, Monday, 14 June 2010 23:04 (thirteen years ago) link
There's a thread that covers a bunch of this stuff here:
Salem - What kind of music genre is this ?
I'm a sucker for it (I like the oOoOOO, or however they spell it, stuff I've heard, too).
I can't bring myself to call it "Witch House."
The videos of Salem playing live at some FADER event were depressing. They murdered their entire mood and mystique for me. Some great tracks, though. Curious how a whole album of it would work.
― Becky Facelift, Monday, 14 June 2010 23:58 (thirteen years ago) link
the P4K feature on this stuff is pretty good and useful (http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/7806-ghosts-in-the-machine/). I still have no idea of what to make of any of it other than I've decided that I'm cool with a goth revival after being on the wrong side of things the last few times around. Balam Acab and oOoOO are both working for me and I like what I've heard of White Ring even though they are biting what Salem did already pretty hard.
― fffv, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 01:46 (thirteen years ago) link
"witch house"
― baout it baout it (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 03:51 (thirteen years ago) link
The videos of Salem playing live at some FADER event were depressing hilarious
― baout it baout it (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 03:52 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0ZetW6bQ7Q
― ksh, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 03:57 (thirteen years ago) link
<3 the comments
sorry to get all Chris Ott here, but it's unfuckingbelievable to me that I can count at least three "tastemaking" music websites staffed with living breathing 30-somethings can actually feign excitement over underdone, underdeveloped bullshit like witch house and chillwave.
― baout it baout it (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 03:57 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm dying at this video -- there's no way this isn't a joke
― ksh, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 03:59 (thirteen years ago) link
basically, Jeff Mangum and Julian Casablancas melded into one person and start mumbling over Brett Scallions from Fuel and some other random lady playing arbitrary notes on Korgs set to "spooky"
― ksh, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 04:05 (thirteen years ago) link
*started
I think the name "Witch House" is great! Much better than "drag". It would only be better if they were all actual Witches. Seriously.
― theskysgoneout (Jason Pitzl-Waters), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 05:31 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean, it's so descriptive. You think, what would I find in a Witch House, and you instantly start to think of spooky stuff.
Also, I thought the White Ring/oOoOO single was quite good.
― theskysgoneout (Jason Pitzl-Waters), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 05:33 (thirteen years ago) link
As a genre I don't know if I can defend this stuff, certainly from charges of it being underdone and underdeveloped and God that video was embarrassing, but I can't help but love some of this stuff.
― filthy dylan, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 07:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Jesus Christ, I hadn't seen *that* video. I'd only seen the below one (from the same show), which features some painfully out-of-tune vocals and some embarassing electric drumming. That other video is mind boggling. Is it possible that they really did damage their nascent career with this single gig?! The previous reports from their shows made them seem genuinely mysterious and frightening (the other thread mentions a few shows) - this is possibly impossible to recover from.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IOX3LQbwdw&feature=related
― Becky Facelift, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 09:28 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.thedailyswarm.com/headlines/buzz-band-salem-gets-booed-stage-fader-fort-during-sxsw/
― ksh, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 11:49 (thirteen years ago) link
those videos are amazing. i think i would pay good money to see them live purely on the back of those. they should play comedy festivals.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 12:43 (thirteen years ago) link
tempted to plug in my keyboard up here and mumble over random notes
― ksh, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 12:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey, I kind of like those Salem clips, reminds me of cLOUDDEAD somehow just not as good. Never need to hear them again though.
I remember somebody posted an oOoOO vid that I liked too.
― seandalai, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 13:13 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah I dig this stuff - it doesn't surprise me to learn that it sucks live but that raver stay wif me mix was great. serious q, whiney: do you really not want to hear stuff that's "underdeveloped"? retrospectively people almost always end up most excited about where a given style or band was when anybody involved was still trying to figure out what exactly they were doin
― get your bucket of free wings (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 13:37 (thirteen years ago) link
dude, you can't see that elevating chillwave/witch house bands is a response to this desperate web culture to be FIRSTFIRSTFIRSTFIRSTFIRSTFIRST? This is barely music. Most bands that make formless noise put more energy and care into their art than this shit. I think as someone who clearly puts a lot of work into his lyrics you should be insulted that people barely excited enough to poke at a toy keyboard is getting so much shine. It's like Casio dubstep, come on fuck a guy
― insane drown posse (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 13:47 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah there's that for sure and I gotta be honest I was listening to Satoh all morning and then I opened this thread and went "maybe I'll listen to that oOoOo" or however you spell it and it sounded really profoundly sorry by contrast, but that Raver Stay Wif me mix really worked for me. I don't really get mad when people get a lot of publicity/buzz though because I gotta lay bare my indie heart here: when something gets a lot of buzz, the chance is like +/- 100% that that means it sucks balls imo - if I spent any time/energy resenting worthless garbage betting buzz, I'd go completely insane
it's like ok yeah making any kind of a big deal about this stuff is silly, but it's pleasant enough with a martini or two
― get your bucket of free wings (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 13:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't even know if that's how you use "+/-" actually what I mean is "pretty much nothing buzzy is ever any good is it"
― get your bucket of free wings (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 13:53 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean, the "buzz" around this is so contrived and suspect too. I would be surprised if I ever knew someone IRL who listens to "witch house" but most of my friends are over 20, so
― insane drown posse (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 13:57 (thirteen years ago) link
kinda hoping it takes off because the terrible band names would be great for ilx display names
hahaha that video is almost st sanders-y. i'm sure it wouldn't be quite as embarassing if the music wasn't mixed almost inaudibly low.
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:02 (thirteen years ago) link
oh man the other video (where he's trying to rock on the roland spds) is even better/worse
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:04 (thirteen years ago) link
ok I had a long post and then I watched that Fader thing where dude is rapping and rhymes "self" with "self" 7x in a row
fuck this forever, I withdraw my support
― get your bucket of free wings (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:22 (thirteen years ago) link
there's no way this is real, seriously: "you the one who's down with it / y'all down with shit / but now my dick hard so go down on it / haaaaaaaah! / so smoke it out"
great job all around
― ksh, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:24 (thirteen years ago) link
OK that was just one bad performance by one band. To me the whole Chillwave/Witch House thing is people who make very interesting noises but so far are terribly incompetent at songwriting. But that's gotta change at some point, I hope.
― the subject of many men’s thoughts (daavid), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:34 (thirteen years ago) link
But that's gotta change at some point, I hope.
well but the thing is & this is what my long post was about: it doesn't change if you get buzz/shows/money at a loads-of-people-see-it level early on; where's the impetus to improve if you're already playing for big crowds before you're writing anything worth hearing? in indie rock since forever, people who get successful while they're still rocking some really annoying affectations/bad singing don't then learn to sing/drop the affectations. they play them up, because the message they've gotten was "this is the side your bread is buttered on."
― get your bucket of free wings (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link
(and if they do actually get better, it can be a very irksome uphill battle persuading supporters that you're not actually "selling out"/changing your style for ignoble reasons)
― get your bucket of free wings (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:40 (thirteen years ago) link
people who get successful while they're still rocking some really annoying affectations/bad singing don't then learn to sing/drop the affectations
there's also the thing in indie rock, though, where the people get more and more successful and totally lose the thing that made them interesting in the first place
― ksh, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:44 (thirteen years ago) link
which seems to have happened lately to The National, Wilco, Conor Oberst, Spoon, Broken Social Scene, etc., etc.
― ksh, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:45 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah I think that effect is generally overstated by indie ppl who're just mad that they don't get to feel as exclusive as they did before
― get your bucket of free wings (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link
not citing you necessarily, I don't listen to much of that stuff and am mainly thinking of people who hated on Wowee Zowee because it wasn't Slanted: there were plenty of 'em, but nowadays they all pretend they loved WZ from the jump
― get your bucket of free wings (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:48 (thirteen years ago) link
sure, it totally is overstated a lot of the time, but as someone who genuinely loved and still loves super hyped records by all of those bands, it also just seems true
― ksh, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I got five bucks says in three years you'll revisit High Violet and say "this is loads better than than I thought it was when I wanted it to be the same record as its predecessor"
obligatory disclosure, I haven't heard & probably won't ever hear High Violet though I like its name.
― get your bucket of free wings (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 15:02 (thirteen years ago) link
why won't you hear it? do you avoid a lot of the big name indie bands?
― ksh, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 15:03 (thirteen years ago) link
"this is loads better than than I thought it was when I wanted it to be the same record as its predecessor"
i don't usually have this with issue with any band, really -- i mean, I like Master of Puppets and parts of St. Anger, so. not that those two records were consecutively released, but
― ksh, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 15:05 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't listen to much indie rock at all unless I think the lyrics are awesome or the musicianship is of ridiculously high caliber
guess how often that's the case
starting a suggest ban campaign because you said you like parts of st. anger
― get your bucket of free wings (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link
anyway that's enough of this, nobody cares about indie rock any more than anybody cares about witch house
― get your bucket of free wings (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 15:10 (thirteen years ago) link
why though? i'm genuinely curious why you don't really dig the genre much!
― ksh, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 15:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I kind of am uninterested in making the witch house thread the "how I feel about indie rock" thread yo
― get your bucket of free wings (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 15:12 (thirteen years ago) link
alright dude, fair enough
― ksh, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 15:13 (thirteen years ago) link
anyway, I just listened to "Frost" on Pitchfork, and I really, really like it! so I'm willing to give them a second chance; it seems credible enough that at least some of the reason for the abject awfulness of the Fader Fort performance is directly due to sound problems at the venue
― ksh, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Salem's tracks on their 7"s *ARE* really great! And some of their homemade videos are incredibly haunting and hypnotic (there are several linked in the other thread). I think Whiney's whole This is barely music. Most bands that make formless noise put more energy and care into their art than this is bullshit, actually - Salem have managed to create a genuinely interesting sound and aesthetic (that *of course* is going to be cheapened by sound-a-like bands and inclusion in a blog-christened "scene" with a ridiculous name). Those live videos are just really unfortunate, in every way.
― Becky Facelift, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, they really are -- even given sound problems, the disparity between that they're doing in those videos and the quality of "Frost" is kinda insane
― ksh, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
actually those videos make 'frost' sound terrible to me. same shitty musicians and presets, it's just on the grid and mixed better.
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
(i only just heard it for the first time now btw)
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
"this misstep exposes them" vs. "this poor showing does not indicate their true qualities" is kind of an intractable ideological battleground imo
― get your bucket of free wings (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link
whatever the deal is, that track is solid and those videos certainly are not. in a different venue, at a different time, with a different atmosphere and sound, and with more practice, i could see their live show being far more compelling
― ksh, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
"that track is solid" vs "that track is not solid, but boring and canned"
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
yes, we disagree regarding "Frost"
― ksh, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link
The Levis Fader Fort thread
― how do i spud webb (am0n), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 16:39 (thirteen years ago) link
i called this shit Screw Wave. such a better name
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 17:13 (thirteen years ago) link
it seems credible enough that at least some of the reason for the abject awfulness of the Fader Fort performance is directly due to sound problems at the venue
i don't think sound problems are to blame for out of tune singing, incredibly bad electronic percussion playing and random synth noodling. very keen to hear what their studio side is like now.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 17:33 (thirteen years ago) link
They have a good eye for graphic design as their album covers all look great.
There's a part of me that is disappointed that when you take away the fog machine and reverb and slowed down vocals the entire affair is less than stellar but then really I don't give a fuck, because the studio version of Redlights has an awesome melody, a great cool sound and is honestly a lot more interesting to listen to than most Wierd records bands -- who are mining similar goth territory and can be just as embarrassing live.
― filthy dylan, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 20:22 (thirteen years ago) link
im fucking with GR†LLGR†LL right now
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Thursday, 17 June 2010 14:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Some famous Neptunes productions use (nearly?) all presets - that's not much of a criticism to lay on witch house.
I think a lot of music in the pop idiom is unimaginative and most pop is a hair's width away from feelings of oh god why do I like this, so I have place in my heart for half-baked ideas in pop music if I have a place in my heart for pop at all.
NB: I haven't heard any witch house.
― bamcquern, Thursday, 17 June 2010 16:41 (thirteen years ago) link
a good use of presets feels definitive imo, like "oh shit, they own that one now." or at least uses it in a context that makes it feel fresh, and not lazy.
(of course, putting presets through an awesome audio chain and great mastering, like the neptunes have access to, sure doesn't hurt)
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Thursday, 17 June 2010 16:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Balam Acab EP announced....
http://pitchfork.com/news/39193-new-release-balam-acab-isee-birdsi-ep/
― sobones_robin, Thursday, 17 June 2010 21:21 (thirteen years ago) link
wow hadn't seen those fader fort salem things.
dude kinda has a jay from jay and silent bob vibe
― it's detlef season, you schrempfs (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
What do we think about Mater Suspiria Vision? Some kind of Detroit Techno leanings and some really cool vimeos.
― the food has a top snake of 1 (ulillillia), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
wow hadn't seen those fader fort salem things
not sure how you avoided em since the same videos have been spammed across about four threads now
― dmr, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
i figured "fader fort salem" was some meme that i didn't get. good to know! the vids are laughable for a second, but more "i fear for the future of my nation" tbh.
― goole, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 21:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Got me thinkingI wish I was leavin’If not...then I’d rather be somewhere elseI’m not tryin’ to be here, by myselfIf you were here too, I’d still be near myself
― Q and Not Gucci (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 1 July 2010 15:15 (thirteen years ago) link
the one white ring song was pretty cool but overall this music seems kind of pathetic
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 1 July 2010 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
If you were here too, I’d still be near myself
^^i might ponder this lyric the rest of my days
― Q and Not Gucci (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 1 July 2010 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
re: fader fort salem, i am torn between feeling bad for them because of the high probability that they're sad fucked up ppl who are getting taken advantage of and being disgusted by them because they don't have the pride/dignity to put together a halfway decent live performance.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 1 July 2010 15:24 (thirteen years ago) link
the high probability that they're sad fucked up ppl
What
― Your review is so far outside the realms of reality (ksh), Thursday, 1 July 2010 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
well, in addition to the interview where the one dude from salem talks about being a prostitute and taking tons of drugs (hey i have no reason to disbelieve him) no way in hell is that a sober performance.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 1 July 2010 17:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Hung out with them in a festival green room; dudes didn't eat any pizza just drank gin gin gin gin. They're totally sweet guys, but probably junkies.
― the food has a top snake of 1 (ulillillia), Thursday, 1 July 2010 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
http://witchhaus.blogspot.com/
― the food has a top snake of 1 (ulillillia), Thursday, 1 July 2010 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah fwiw I don't know if dude was a prostitute or not, but he's not really said anything that I don't believe; from what I've heard, Traverse City is one of the most closeted cities in the country...
― is this the end of zombie Shakespeare? (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 1 July 2010 18:59 (thirteen years ago) link
witch house seems to exist in some alternate universe where bands name themselves after ilx display names
― /\/K/\/\, Thursday, 1 July 2010 19:24 (thirteen years ago) link
haha no doubt, you in particular should try to sell yours to one, it totally fits
― Q and Not Gucci (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 1 July 2010 19:26 (thirteen years ago) link
these guys are basically trolling right
― surfer blood for oil (Hurting 2), Thursday, 1 July 2010 19:26 (thirteen years ago) link
have we mentioned SLEEP ∞ OVER
their name says witch house, but i', not sure if they are and i need someone to tell me so I know which emerging subculture i am aligning myself with when i enjoy their streaming audio and video files
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Thursday, 1 July 2010 23:15 (thirteen years ago) link
idk; the songs on Salem's myspace are awesome...fuck a fader fort tbf...
― is this the end of zombie Shakespeare? (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 1 July 2010 23:19 (thirteen years ago) link
xp
ehhh frost is a pretty good tune, sounds sort of like something left off the back side of Saturdays = Youth but with southern rap influenced drum programming. the stuff that basically bites Screw is pretty -__-
― /\/K/\/\, Thursday, 1 July 2010 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
oh boy..outtamydepthsagain..."bites Screw"?
― is this the end of zombie Shakespeare? (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 1 July 2010 23:26 (thirteen years ago) link
my bad, DJ Screw
― /\/K/\/\, Thursday, 1 July 2010 23:29 (thirteen years ago) link
e.g. the real slowed vocal sample in TRAPDOOR
― /\/K/\/\, Thursday, 1 July 2010 23:31 (thirteen years ago) link
its not a sample but you know what i mean
Bit of an interview from BUTT MAGAZINE with one of the Salem d00ds (the singer?) (http://www.buttmagazine.com/?p=2102)
Michael: So what is this about you being a teenage prostitute? Were you doing it for the thrill of it?John: No. Because I needed money to buy drugs.
Really? What drugs?Well, I was doing coke and heroin – I was speedballing.
Did your friends know that you were doing this?My friend Heather knew, who is also in Salem. My other friends sorta knew. But I was doing it, like, when I was, like, 16 or 17. When I was growing up in Michigan, I would just go to, like, the gas station whereI would, like, hang out in the back and, you know, someone would just, like, drive up to the back and blah, blah, blah. But, like, when I went to Chicago…
Wait, wait, wait! You’d go to the gas station and people would just pull up? What were they like?Just, like, guys. Some of them were pretty hot, ’cause they were, like, really white trash and, like, probably almost all of them had wives. But some of them were also really, like, nasty and, like, fat. But I didn’t make good money there. It was, like, real cheap in Michigan. But when I went to Chicago, I made, like, really good money.
So the majority were ‘on the down low’?Yeah, they, like, wanted to, like, fuck a guy and they couldn’t, ’cause they were married.
How would it work? They just knew you were there? How’d you solicit them?Yeah, I’d be back there and they’d just pull up and they’d be, like, ‘Hey, are you looking for a date?’ and I’d be, like, ‘Yup.’ (laughs) But in Chicago I could trick in a cab. I would just get in a cab and be, like, ‘Hey, I don’t have any money. Can you help me out?’ And they would drive me to somewhere secluded and, like, fuck me, or I’d do whatever, give them a blowjob or a handjob and I wouldn’t have to pay, but they’d give me money. I would, like, get so muchwork from cabs.
What do you mean? Chicago has that many gay cab drivers?Well, maybe not all gay, but at least horny.You could just hail a cab and be, like, ‘Hey, I don’t have any money’ and they’d know what you were talking about. But there was an IHOP (International House of Pancakes) near the Boystown, in Chicago’s gay area, and you would go back in their parking lot to trick. It was me and a bunch of other guys. People would just drive up and take whoever they wanted.
Really? A lineup? What kind of rates would you get?I could make, like, $2,000 for having someone fuck me.
What? For a whole weekend?No, just for a night.
Isn’t that kind of rate more for highbrow prostitution?Well, I’m actually lying; that, like, only happened a few times. But you just start out, like, ‘$2,000?’ and they either say yes or no. If they’re like, ‘No’, then you have to lower your rate.
And some people would give you $2,000?Yeah. And then I’d buy drugs.
Did you go to college?Yeah, I did. I went to college at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – for drawing and installation.
Did you finish?No. I was going to finish it, but during my last year I got, like, really messed up. I was, like, a hardcore drug addict. I never went to class, and I would do a lot of drugs and drink, like, a handle (1.75 liters) of whiskey in a day. I just never finished.
So when you were addicted to drugs, what kind of high were you looking for?Well, I’m sorta, like, a pretty, like, depressed person…
etc. etc.
― CompuPost, Thursday, 1 July 2010 23:32 (thirteen years ago) link
xp to nkm is tent kinda like that too?
― is this the end of zombie Shakespeare? (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 1 July 2010 23:34 (thirteen years ago) link
ya although i think it works a little better in that song than trapdoor
― /\/K/\/\, Thursday, 1 July 2010 23:36 (thirteen years ago) link
is there a thread yet?
anyhow- a mix
http://www.mediafire.com/?2z14z50mdun
― corporationpop, Sunday, 11 July 2010 21:26 (thirteen years ago) link
oh shit, don't judge me but i really love these two white ring tracks :/
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 22:19 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.animationplayhouse.com/flying_witch.gif
― markers, Tuesday, 17 August 2010 22:58 (thirteen years ago) link
As a side note, oOoOO wins for our favorite witch house band name, with runner-up awards going to GL▲SS †33†H, GR†LLGR†LL and ℑ⊇≥◊≤⊆ℜ.
this whole scene is a parody of itself and i can't wait for everyone to get bored with this
― ^^^that's lightweight jammin (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
How do you pronounce ℑ⊇≥◊≤⊆ℜ
― funky house skeptic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:42 (thirteen years ago) link
dig the idea of this genre. spotted a white ring/ooooo song on emusic, which led me to another song on the same label:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ345aH7dS8
is this "witch house"? i sure like it. it's electronic, cut-up stuff.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:49 (thirteen years ago) link
is this "witch house"?
http://traditionalpatriot.info/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/magnifying-glass.gif
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:51 (thirteen years ago) link
that's me, actually, but i have a monocle, not a magnifying glass.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:56 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.myspace.com/ffdisaro
White Ring and Robert Disaro UK tour. If only there was a way of finding out the venues of said gigs - Google is really not compatible with this genre at all.
― get the fuck out of my mouth (boxedjoy), Monday, 27 September 2010 22:16 (thirteen years ago) link
there's a song by a band whose name I can't remember--though one of the words in the name is RADIO with the A being replaced by one of those triangle thingies--anyway their song Chant samples Badu's Soldier...I thought that was kind of unexpected...
what are the names of the good White Ring songs?
― demons a. real (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 27 September 2010 22:56 (thirteen years ago) link
the band you mentioned is LAKE R▲DIO. a band I don't really care for.
Suffocation and lxC999 are White Ring songs I like, but I am also a sucker for drum machines and the intentionally spooky.
― fffv, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 04:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Pure Ownage:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_0JftWlyf4Fuck the haters man this shit rules....
― the knicks ain't that bad, Thursday, 7 October 2010 15:15 (thirteen years ago) link
much more industrial than what i usually associate with ... the genre this thread is about. caught these guys live in bk sort of by accident and it was all fog machines and pounding drums and some dudes were there with really extreme industrial haircuts. i guess it was only a matter of time
― teflon dawn (uptown churl), Thursday, 7 October 2010 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5cpnpC6RHwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDfjWIEvcdk
― one time gaffled 'em up (one time), Saturday, 9 October 2010 05:55 (thirteen years ago) link
^^ these guys do it well
― one time gaffled 'em up (one time), Saturday, 9 October 2010 05:56 (thirteen years ago) link
she say im down wih huh, i say bitch you aloneyou lyin wit the flesh, lyin with the boneshe say i'm lyin wih huh, my mind in the SKREETi say i'm not with me, i'm with she, i'm with shenow plane lights blinkin, off in da eveningot me thinkin, wish i was leavinit's not that i'm tryna be somewhere elsei'm not tryna be here... by myselfif you were here too i'd still be with myselfi talk real loud, i don't wanna hear myselfi'm faraway lost and i don't want helpif you could bring me back, i kill myself... haaanot myself, that's just myselfi don't know if you could tell, but i'm in helli don't know if you noticed, but i haven't spokenmy arm might be broken, i'm so sick of jokin
― underrated SCAREosmith albums I have loved (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 9 October 2010 06:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Gatekeeper is not witch house fwiw
― underrated SCAREosmith albums I have loved (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 9 October 2010 06:19 (thirteen years ago) link
why isnt this genre called haunted house
― HOLY MONEY HOLY LOL (diamonddave85), Saturday, 9 October 2010 06:28 (thirteen years ago) link
^good question 85
― All Evil Begins as Flight from Pain (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 9 October 2010 23:00 (thirteen years ago) link
I saw White Ring last night and it was really good, even if there were only five people there and their set seemed to consist of only four songs.
― get the fuck out of my mouth (boxedjoy), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 09:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Do Demdike Stare belong to this group? Or are they... mmm... witchstep?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKrpwRV3O7Ihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_jhV6f62g8&feature=relatedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bL1I7XSqZQ
Also more keen on using Haunted House as a genre name than Witch House.
― Moka, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 17:35 (thirteen years ago) link
^^ 'the stars are moving' is my jam
― drive this seven inch cheese steak through my philadelphia heart (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 18:15 (thirteen years ago) link
white ring are pretty good live! though they will be better when they can hire people to put the stage together beforehand for them, seeing them wandering about fiddling with wires wasn't good for the ~mystique~
def find myself wanting to know more about them, anyway
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 23:35 (thirteen years ago) link
oh and the smoke alarm went off halfway through because of their ~spooky~ dry ice, sigh
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 23:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I just watched the Fader Fort videos. That is some terrible performance, I couldn't stop laughing. They're either some of the finest trolls in music right now or really, honestly fucked up by drugs.
― Moka, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 04:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I kinda want to see a 'Salem Shreds' video now.
― Moka, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 04:07 (thirteen years ago) link
there's more differences than similarities in these bands for all of them to be put under one big tent, me thinks. I still don't get why this particular trend in electronic music is getting so much attention among those that have bothered to check for it. It's like hype for the sake of hype. What are we averaging now, a new buzz genre to hate every 3 months? That said, the guy behind ooOoOO has very interesting ideas and I think of all the acts, this will be the one to release songs that I'll want to hear the same time next year.
― 2+2 is 4 (Spinspin Sugah), Friday, 22 October 2010 01:45 (thirteen years ago) link
This is what I imagine Witch House sounds like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknzJ-U8Z5Y&feature=player_embedded
― 17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Friday, 29 October 2010 01:18 (thirteen years ago) link
who on ABC thought that Charlie Brown rapping would be a great idea?
(S/he was right, but still...)
― captain extra tomato (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 29 October 2010 12:16 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't think this is witch house. In fact I'm not sure what it is. But it's ace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78_loMbmKJ8&feature=related
― Cracker Flocka Flame (Doran), Friday, 7 January 2011 09:19 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm no expert, but i believe that is what's known as "rap music"
― missingNO, Friday, 7 January 2011 09:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha ha, quite. But I'm not that stupid that I'm going to post on the Gun Sounds Thread. Do I look like I was born yesterday?
― Cracker Flocka Flame (Doran), Friday, 7 January 2011 10:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Just your usual cliche rap video with dudes pulling off their own fingernails and pulling clumps of hair out of their scalp
Seriously though that ruled
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Friday, 7 January 2011 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
ILX has been talking about those guys for a long time now in that Odd Future thread (cos thats who it is).
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 7 January 2011 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Is anyone else familiar w/ this dude? His myspace claims that he invented witch house, which I hadn't even known existed til I saw him randomly at DIY-venue concert. He opened up for Crystal Castles on NYE in Boulder a week back. I've talked to him personally but sort of consider him a douche, just on the superficial "look at what i'm wearing" level. http://plainpictures.blogspot.com/2010/11/13-rules-to-make-great-witch-house-song.html
― heh (kelpolaris), Friday, 7 January 2011 16:11 (thirteen years ago) link
"look at what I'm wearing?" The photo I saw had dude in one of those wolf t-shirts you get at truckstops
investigating further - love this song
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Friday, 7 January 2011 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
is that serious because hakim bey really sucks
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 7 January 2011 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Friday, January 7, 2011 9:15 AM (57 seconds ago) Bookmark
He's a pleasant guy, I just psychological can't bring myself to like somebody who dresses for attention. Even if they are a "super star". http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_103qbMXE67c/SVlMZ0BVnVI/AAAAAAAAAI8/c3fsrdvXwbQ/s400/pp.jpg
― heh (kelpolaris), Friday, 7 January 2011 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
so can I just say that the Creep EP is fucking fantastic
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Found this on the Disaro myspace. I'd say is about halfway between Witch House and Chillwave. I like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kvn8qZvTmY
― daavid, Friday, 25 March 2011 00:10 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JjymFk-df8
Dunno if this is the right thread or not, but this new Sleep ∞ Over song is lovely
― ka£ka (NickB), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 12:00 (thirteen years ago) link
I generally haven't been too keen on this scene, but I'm liking this a lot: http://alteredzones.com/posts/1396/zoned-holy-other-u/
― Fellini.Kuti, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 23:29 (twelve years ago) link
I also like the last.fm picturehttp://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/59392111/Holy+Other+noir1.jpg
― Fellini.Kuti, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 23:30 (twelve years ago) link
Are Holy Other witch house, then? Heard "Your Love" randomly on the radio last night (OK, not randomly, on one of Erol Alkan's radio shows) and was completely struck by it, but out of context it seemed a lot more ambient-ish, like a slowed-down fuzzy version of The Field. But I'm hopeless with trying to get my head around genre. And I didn't really like the other MP3 that's floating around the interweb.
Anyway, I like it.
― Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Monday, 25 July 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
I've heard Holy Other pegged as such, but I don't really have a feel for what that genre tag means myself... I do like the new EP quite a lot, too.
― Clarke B., Monday, 25 July 2011 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
protip: witch house is a "style" of music, not a "genre" of music
― I'm goin' hongrø-øøøøøøøøøøø (crüt), Monday, 25 July 2011 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
a guy introduced himself to me the other night as a "witch house DJ", in utter seriousness, and it was hard not to laugh. i admit total cluelessness, though
― geeta, Monday, 25 July 2011 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
RIP witch house
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
†his Is A †rick
― markers, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
UPDATE: Witch house band †‡† (aka Ritualz) is "SO FUCKING PISSED RIGHT NOW", saying that Chino is totally “stealing my shit”. (via Living Ears)
― I for one am (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
from "change (in the house of flies)": "I look at the cross"
lol @ ppl who didn't see this coming
― markers, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
as soon as I figure out what wolf house is & I invent the genre ppl are gonna flock to that shit so be ready
rip witch house, wolf house froze you forever
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/71rnH.jpg
― markers, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
I think the first wolf house comp is gonna be called "wolf house is in the house"
you'll all learn to love it
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
so um this is awesome but not nearly as atmospheric as the other stuff under the witch house umbrella
like, even Creep has a chilly detachment to it; all of this is pretty much straight ahead bangin' dark synth pop, totally extroverted with none of the claustrophobia I consider to be the essential ingredient to a witch house track
obv it shits directly in Salem's hat
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 00:33 (twelve years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/news/43411-deftones-dude-has-a-witch-house-project/
Kinda lame how dismissive Pitchfork is about this just because it's the Deftones dude. Deftones were a pretty interesting band, and Team Sleep, from what I recall, was way more radical than a lot of the shit getting Best New Music reviews these days. "Deftones dude," really?
Anyway - curious. Gonna download.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 02:22 (twelve years ago) link
And before anyone points it it, yes I'm aware I also called him 'the Deftones dude.'
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 02:23 (twelve years ago) link
yeah the whole "deftones dude" thing in the title was lame imo
― markers, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 02:23 (twelve years ago) link
If this has been of any value, it's in revealing a number heretofore unknown-by-me Deftones apologists among the contemporary rock crit. ranks.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 14:16 (twelve years ago) link
It's all the goths, you see.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
Ha! Check the archives, dude, there's much Deftones love on ILM.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
That said I'm not feeling this EP at all.
This is witch house made in the 80s, right? well, except for the chorus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTjDTQQInRM
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
haha I never would have thought to make that connection, but I can see it!
― Logg \ O / Logg (crüt), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
although, you could just as easily say it sounds like Slowdive or Lycia or something.
is this where ppl are going to talk about the Purity Ring album?
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
ha. or maybe here? Johnny Fever's Not Pop Not Indie Shambhala: 2012 ed.
but people are talking about the Lorn record on the rolling indie thread so it's all up for grabs now.
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
I think... I really like this? It's kind of monochromatic though.
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
yeah if i hear one song i think it sounds great, but if i hear two+ they start blending together.
their sound feels really inevitable to me, like it was only a matter of time before someone put these sounds together (not necessarily a bad thing).
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
That's a good way of putting it; I feel like I've heard them a million times before but I can't really put my finger on where (the closest I could come was "Creep fronted by Kirsty Hawkshaw"). She's a wipsier vocalist than Amika and the songs are more fully baked than Kate Wax, so while there are definite similarities it slides into its own niche.
I think what's really keeping me at a slight remove is that musically there is a lot of crossover between their sound palette and Creep's but all the songs have the same singer, making them seem much more samey in comparison.
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
btw just by posting about it you made me realize that they're little goth-ier than i had been hearing them (which was more 'up-to-the-minute bass music sounds + indie-ish pop').
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
just after playing this, I put on Geography by Front 242 and I swear every group getting tagged as "witch house" must have listened to this specific album
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
fyi, a month later and I really fucking love Purity Ring, mostly because of the early Front 242 aping
"Fineshrine" is totally my jam
― Lil Swayne of Pie (DJP), Thursday, 23 August 2012 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
;_; it's lonely, being the only dude on ILX who actively cares about Purity Ring
― Technology of the Big Muff (DJP), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpdyGFmct78
― I don't even know wtf this band sounds like I'm just trollin (fffv), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
you'd be in good company in real life, they played here and people liked it and at least one person drove to mpls to see them again
I kind of found the lyrics irritating on listen, but OK when drowned by the rest of the music. Made them reasonable live.
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
will CREEP make an album that gets released properly (as opposed to the usual bandcamp/soundcloud route)
i hope so ..
― mark e, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
they've released the singles on major label, right?
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
no idea .. have they ?
i just got digital gubbins ..
― mark e, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
CREEP is my most anticipated album at this point, I really really really really want that to happen immediately
re: Purity Ring lyrics, I get how they could make ppl cringe but every goth fiber in my being responds positively to the lines "cut open my sternum and poke/my little ribs around you"
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
ahh, djp, together forever in love of beer, chips, and goth enhanced pop !
― mark e, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
*bumps fists, then stares dejectedly out into the rain pondering the futility of man's existence*
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
think i preferred my choice of a night out sir.
― mark e, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
lol fair point
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
Is witch house, the dark genre du jour, really scary? asks MTV in feature on new genre that lists Oneohtrix Point Never as a genre mainstay.
― Doran, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
>:-(
― the late great, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
I think you mean <|:-(
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
philip morris owns triangles, RIP witch house: http://www.stonesthrow.com/news/2013/03/jonwayne-cassette-2
― shit tie (Jordan), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
lolllll
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
This genre is better now - a few years after the hype due artistic growth, also more people working the "grave wave" scene. Really enjoying some on this Halloween.
Which hip-hop acts and recordings are the influence here? I like the whole Planet Rock / Planet Death vibe. Also some of it sounds like Cocteau Twins Garlands - the guiltiest of goth pleasures.
― Threat Assessment Division (I M Losted), Friday, 31 October 2014 14:25 (nine years ago) link
― Technology of the Big Muff (DJP)
I like Purity Ring. Are they Witch House?
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 31 October 2014 14:27 (nine years ago) link
lol @ "'the grave wave' scene"
― johnny crunch, Friday, 31 October 2014 23:25 (nine years ago) link
anywyay this is too good to be †rue wi†ch house but idk where to put it
https://soundcloud.com/cfcf/night-bus-3NIGHT BUS 3: DEATH OF NIGHT BUS
― johnny crunch, Friday, 31 October 2014 23:27 (nine years ago) link
new Shlohmo is super witch-y/John Carpenter-ish.http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/arts/music/pressplay.html?_r=2&
digging it, he always has better hooks than everybody else.
― lil urbane (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 20:16 (nine years ago) link
love the hyped-up, busy d&b drum tracks too.
― lil urbane (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 20:32 (nine years ago) link
― baout it baout it (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, June 14, 2010 11:57 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
cf., "PC Music"
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 20:35 (nine years ago) link
oh hi whiney
― lil urbane (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 20:41 (nine years ago) link
some of the PC Music shit is super prog, i thought you would be into it:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJHsaGU09No
and what about this sounds underdeveloped?https://soundcloud.com/pcmus/in-my-dreams
― lil urbane (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 20:43 (nine years ago) link
(i don't know why i try)
― lil urbane (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 21:08 (nine years ago) link
Also some of it sounds like Cocteau Twins Garlands - the guiltiest of goth pleasures.
I'd like to know what sounds like Garlands because that is the opposite of a guilty pleasure, delicious as it gets. I really wish they had more albums like that (as well as the early EPs). I've meant to investigate this stuff for years but the only stuff I heard sounded quite boring. I was hoping for something like Aghast or Divine Punishment era Diamanda Galas.
Sleep Over sounded cool but that's pretty much gothic dreampop, doesn't sound like a new genre.
Will check samples of Creep soon hopefully.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 00:44 (nine years ago) link
Is any of the newer stuff on Phantasma worth checking out?
http://phantasmadisques.bigcartel.com/products
― Ethnically Ambiguous / 28 - 45 (ShariVari), Monday, 13 April 2015 19:38 (nine years ago) link
The Canadian duo DKMD do a nice line in giallo-influenced disco that overlaps with a lot of witch house stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udcujCjOebk
The VV17CHØU7 club events in Moscow look really fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6vL0r_VGB0
Cult and Crossparty are probably the pick of the artists.
― I wear my Redditor loathing with pride (ShariVari), Sunday, 2 August 2015 20:46 (eight years ago) link
― underrated SCAREosmith albums I have loved (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, October 9, 2010 2:15 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― dick wet with chickenshit (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 2 August 2015 20:52 (eight years ago) link
I love listening to Witch House playlists on Spotify at work because A. I like the way it sounds and B. the people who want to come into my office and give me more work to do cannot take even 15 seconds of it and flee
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 29 January 2018 20:51 (six years ago) link
"Come back there's some Brokencyde you need to hear too."
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 January 2018 20:55 (six years ago) link
it's like the perfect combination of boy band techno and creepy industrial noises, EVERYBODY hates it
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 29 January 2018 20:56 (six years ago) link
except me!
was listening to the Creep album on the way to work which was more witch house-adjacent, but it made me remember "witch house"
kept mumbling "wiiiiitch hoooouse" to myself in the car
― mh, Monday, 29 January 2018 20:57 (six years ago) link
my neighbor witch house would be an excellent kid's animated film
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 29 January 2018 20:59 (six years ago) link
I haven't caught up with it recently, but I used to listen to this Spotify playlist all the time.
https://open.spotify.com/user/12145454449/playlist/0ZYCdcbhJ3Uy1zcB9JHVeW?si=E0b7MIHgR3atP219YudxfQ
add your favorite witch house playlists here (I guess).
― fffv, Monday, 29 January 2018 22:29 (six years ago) link
the one I really loved on Youtube seems to have disappeared, sadly
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 29 January 2018 23:41 (six years ago) link
also we looked up the translated lyrics to ic3peak's "Грустная Сука" and they're pretty great:
I’m ruining your day with my dead pale faceI don’t care about you being triggeredWild dogs are afraid both of me and of fireThat’s not a coincidence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf99kdFw9b8
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 29 January 2018 23:49 (six years ago) link
if you were here too I'd still be by myself
― bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 00:32 (six years ago) link
Talking of Russian Witch House, I was just thinking about Vagina Vangi. They did a few EPs and things about five years ago, I liked this one -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvcQ4P2CcDo
(warning that it doesn't really get going until the second half)
And they did quite a few remixes of note, like this version of Ghetto Ass Witch by †‡†
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNEksbngz9E
They were definitely a bit cheesy but still exactly what I wanted from witch house.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 22:09 (six years ago) link
https://www.nts.live/shows/physical-therapy/episodes/physical-therapy-22nd-march-2024
Witch House special!
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 30 March 2024 11:28 (one month ago) link