The Witch House thread

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

(i don't know why i try)

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.

Is any of the newer stuff on Phantasma worth checking out?

http://phantasmadisques.bigcartel.com/products

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.

she say im down wih huh, i say bitch you alone
you lyin wit the flesh, lyin with the bone
she say i'm lyin wih huh, my mind in the SKREET
i say i'm not with me, i'm with she, i'm with she
now plane lights blinkin, off in da evenin
got me thinkin, wish i was leavin
it's not that i'm tryna be somewhere else
i'm not tryna be here... by myself
if you were here too i'd still be with myself
i talk real loud, i don't wanna hear myself
i'm faraway lost and i don't want help
if you could bring me back, i kill myself... haaa
not myself, that's just myself
i don't know if you could tell, but i'm in hell
i don't know if you noticed, but i haven't spoken
my 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

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

"Come back there's some Brokencyde you need to hear too."

it's like the perfect combination of boy band techno and creepy industrial noises, EVERYBODY hates it

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

my neighbor witch house would be an excellent kid's animated film

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).

the one I really loved on Youtube seems to have disappeared, sadly

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 face
I don’t care about you being triggered
Wild dogs are afraid both of me and of fire
That’s not a coincidence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf99kdFw9b8

if you were here too I'd still be by myself

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.

https://www.nts.live/shows/physical-therapy/episodes/physical-therapy-22nd-march-2024

Witch House special!