Category: Witching Waves

Witching Waves at Stereo Embers

These being the days they are, where every man woman child and mother in the indie world are clambering onto a bandwagon laden with carelessly spangled neo-lysergic tropes of every dredged-up variety, its understandable that one could hear the band name ‘Witching Waves’ and be immediately beset by mis-impression, ie assume them to be some… Continue reading Witching Waves at Stereo Embers

Witching Waves at Finest Kiss

Full of buzzing noisy guitars that trace their lineage back through a jagged line connected byth’ Faith Healers, Pixies and Wire, Witching Waves second album Crystal Cafe is sure to of interest for folks who like noise rock with gashes of melody and ambient interludes. The band have professed a love of Sleater-Kinney, Dischord Records… Continue reading Witching Waves at Finest Kiss

Witching Waves at Dagger

This U.K. trio’s 2014 debut, Fear of  Falling Down completely passed me by, but this one, a domestic release on HHBTM, surely didn’t. Along with bands like Joanna Gruesome and Veronica Falls they’d seem to have some cacophonous brethren in their homeland and I also hear bits of Sonic Youth, The Vaselines and Shop Assistants… Continue reading Witching Waves at Dagger

Witching Waves at Vinyl District

Witching Waves is a London-based three-piece with clear ties to post-punk, the guitar textures of Sonic Youth and the rawer side of the ‘90s indie rock spectrum, a blend nicely enhanced by trio leanness and a tendency to bear down and get raucous. Crystal Cafeis their second LP, and while it’s erroneous to portray its… Continue reading Witching Waves at Vinyl District

Witching Waves at London in Stereo

The follow-up to Witching Waves’ 2014 debutFear Of Falling Down sees the London three-piece navigate towards a more focused vision. On Crystal Cafe, the trio’s heightened confidence is manifested in myriad ways: whileFear Of Falling Down‘s breezy chaos was as successful as it was haphazardly created (the band themselves admit that the making the first… Continue reading Witching Waves at London in Stereo

Witching Waves at Pop! Stereo

Witching Waves’ Crystal Café is a restless record of noisy guitars, sugary sweet vocals and driving rhythms.  Sounding something like the Pixies/Breeders with a bit of riot grrl, Lush and Sonic Youth thrown in for good measure Britain’s Witching Waves create a raucous distorted wall of edginess with just enough pop sensibility to make it… Continue reading Witching Waves at Pop! Stereo

Witching Waves at MPMBL

Es geht mit Sicherheit auch eine Nummer kleiner: Gerade hat sich die halbe Wissenschaftswelt wie Bolle darüber gefreut, dass man endlich die Existenz der Einsteinschen Gravitationswellen nachweisen konnte, etwas bescheidener freut sich, wer die Hexenwellen aus London für sich entdeckt: Das Londoner Trio, bestehend aus Emma Wigham (Gesang, Drums), Mark Jasper (Gitarre) und Ed Shellard… Continue reading Witching Waves at MPMBL

Witching Waves at Visions

“Flowers”, die erste Auskopplung des zweiten Albums “Crystal Cafe” des Postpunk-Trios Witching Waves, ist schon eine kluge Finte. Der pluckernde, höhenlastige Basslauf und das monoton-düstere Drumming würde nämlich perfekt zum sonoren, bassigen Bariton eines Ian Curtis oder dem Weltschmerz von The Cure passen. Auf Albumlänge zeigt sich allerdings, dass die Band aus London eher im… Continue reading Witching Waves at Visions

Witching Waves at Bearded Magazine

Sometimes deadpan Sonic Youth, sometimes Veronica Falls trading vocals and sometimes screaming like the Pixies, Witching Wavessecond album conjures a meaner beast from the darkness for the London trio. The main thrust of Crystal Café is the overriding disdain for life and their surroundings. There’s not just a mild sense of peril in the words… Continue reading Witching Waves at Bearded Magazine