The Witch House thread

†his Is A †rick

UPDATE: Witch house band †‡† (aka Ritualz) is "SO FUCKING PISSED RIGHT NOW", saying that Chino is totally “stealing my shit”. (via Living Ears)

from "change (in the house of flies)": "I look at the cross"

lol @ ppl who didn't see this coming

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

http://i.imgur.com/71rnH.jpg

I think the first wolf house comp is gonna be called "wolf house is in the house"

you'll all learn to love it

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

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.

And before anyone points it it, yes I'm aware I also called him 'the Deftones dude.'

yeah the whole "deftones dude" thing in the title was lame imo

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.

It's all the goths, you see.

Ha! Check the archives, dude, there's much Deftones love on ILM.

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

haha I never would have thought to make that connection, but I can see it!

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?

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.

I think... I really like this? It's kind of monochromatic though.

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).

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.

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').

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

fyi, a month later and I really fucking love Purity Ring, mostly because of the early Front 242 aping

"Fineshrine" is totally my jam

;_; it's lonely, being the only dude on ILX who actively cares about Purity Ring

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpdyGFmct78

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.

will CREEP make an album that gets released properly (as opposed to the usual bandcamp/soundcloud route)

i hope so ..

they've released the singles on major label, right?

no idea .. have they ?

i just got digital gubbins ..

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"

CREEP is my most anticipated album at this point, I really really really really want that to happen immediately

ahh, djp, together forever in love of beer, chips, and goth enhanced pop !

*bumps fists, then stares dejectedly out into the rain pondering the futility of man's existence*

think i preferred my choice of a night out sir.

lol fair point

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.

>:-(

I think you mean <|:-(

philip morris owns triangles, RIP witch house: http://www.stonesthrow.com/news/2013/03/jonwayne-cassette-2

lolllll

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.

;_; it's lonely, being the only dude on ILX who actively cares about Purity Ring

― Technology of the Big Muff (DJP)

I like Purity Ring. Are they Witch House?

lol @ "'the grave wave' scene"

anywyay this is too good to be †rue wi†ch house but idk where to put it

https://soundcloud.com/cfcf/night-bus-3
NIGHT BUS 3: DEATH OF NIGHT BUS

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.

love the hyped-up, busy d&b drum tracks too.

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), Monday, June 14, 2010 11:57 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cf., "PC Music"

oh hi whiney

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