Friday 13 August 2010

For those a little late to the movement

For those of you who don't know, 2010/late 2009 bestowed upon us a new genre, one that in the wake of chillwave took off on account of the internet hype surrounding it. I'm talking about Witch House, or drag. Whatever you wish to call it, it's a strange one consisting of screwed up dark sounding hip hop beats, uneasy lo-fi synths and quite often vocal samples more haunting than your dead grandma. In essence, it's just a scary genre. Oh, and the bands all seem to have ridiculous names and track names involving triangles and crosses.
But a good one non the less. With a handful of artists on the Houston label "Disaro", a couple on internet label "Witch Trial" and a good few more on New York label, "Tri angle", people were ready to accept witch house as a "scene", until it died a couple of months back. Or at least that's what people on the internet seemed to think. Has music really come to this? Where a scene can take off and then kill itself all within the space of 6 months? Seemingly not, despite said cries of "Witch House being dead", the labels seem to think on the contrary, with the Balam Acab EP just on the release (scoring 8/10 on pitchfork) and with NME finally starting to catch on, witch house could only just be starting. ///▲▲▲\\\ for Glasto headliners next year anyone?

Well I suppose it's not much use just describing the sound to you so here be some links!

oOoOO - No Summr4U (2010) Their sound is more accessible than many other witch house artists, so it's not a bad idea to start here.

✝No Virgin✝- Downer EP (2010) some weird sounding stuff right here.

GuMMy†Be▲R! - Für diejenigen die mit Messern EP (2010) The track sexualCRIME is quite possibly the creepiest thing I have ever heard.

H∆UNT3D HOUS3 - S3XY TIM3 3P More wonderfull witch house

///▲▲▲\\\ - CDR (2010) This is one of the more famous witch house releases.

That should do you all for now, and I'll remember to keep you posted on any new releases.
Also, if you like any of these enough, do try and buy a record or something, the labels need your support!

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