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
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"
― 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
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, 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