Release
date: February 24th
2017. Label: New West
Records.
Format: CD/DD/Vinyl
Sleeping
Through The War – Tracklisting
1.
Bulls
2.
Don’t Bring Me Coffee
3.
Bruce Lee
4.
3-5-7
5.
Am I Going Up
6.
Alabaster
7.
Cowboy Kirk
8.
Internet
Band
Members
Charles Michael Parks, Jr.
(vocals/bass)
Ben McLeod (guitar)
Allan Van Cleave (keys)
Robby Staebler (drums).
Review
All
Them Witches is a band who create cosmic hypnosis. They combine 60's
psychedelia, 70's fuzz and 80's groove in their own brand of trance
rock. This is a band that is constructed of certain paramount
elements of pure rock grandeur, the essence of what comprised the
relevant in U2, the mighty in Zeppelin, the abstract in Floyd and the
dangerous in The Doors.
Eight
songs make up the rooms in this astrological house of an album and
each room is decorated differently, just like the signs of the
zodiac. This is to be marked as a triumphant return of a band who
conjure music from electric broomsticks, upturned cauldrons, black
cat organs, and lyrical spell books. The exhibition of paramount song
writing power and overall glossy album production are the two
commandments followed on this release.
Here are the songs:
Bulls-is
a dream-like song of enlightenment in the new age of sound. This band
leads off the album with a warm, fuzz laden lullaby; a mesmerizing
blend of powerful and magnetic stoned blues rock.
Don't
Bring Me Coffee-this tune is intergalactic garage rock made in the
orbit of deep space by psychic astronauts on the fringe of the great
beyond. A song played with the dirt of distortion bouncing off
cavernous drums, all of which is recorded in a satellite coated with
duct tape residue.
Bruce
Lee-a galloping ride of hovering organ and shuffling rock mellow
fusion whose goal is to proclaim the strength of clarity in a
wilderness of doubt.
3-5-7-
embodies the rhythmic sway of the turquoise beaded shaman and all his
magical allure to predict the magnificent course of the child into
the god. This tune consists of melodic keys of organic elongation,
distorted guitar riffs and uncomplicated drums, all of which exist
alongside a masterful choral delight.
Am
I Going Up-this tune is broadcasted through echoes of guitar plucks
and strums, background singers of the female persuasion, a smooth
vocal delivery, and the use of a machine whose sole job is to make
warm, ripe, cinnamon coated apple sounds...welcome to an ascension
into the world exotic birds and the feathery vibrations of their
solar sails.
Alabaster-this
track is a manifestation of reflected instruments backed by spacey
jazz percussion. A cool spin that mirrors a functional imprint of
repetitious instrument notes and swirling patterns of conga beats.
Cowboy
Kirk- a dichotomous, slow beat song that dissolves into psychedelic
woe, yet also evolves into an appeal that makes you bob and sway. It
is time break all the colors of your kid sister's wax crayon box only
to fashion a candle to burn and watch the rainbow bleed down.
Internet-a
fantastic, harmonic, blues man, spoken word mantra which trades off
with a classic rock vibe that voices the broken code to an all true
tell tale lyric demonstrated by watching your neighbors explore an
expansive video game civilization instead of the real world around
them.
All
Them Witches remind us that the darkness doesn't always have to
consist of razor sharp teeth, rather it may sometimes offer an
undulating caress of the black tongue.
These
witches are highly developed entities who have chosen to move beyond
the ancient, constant and all to common torture tactics of devil
worship, choosing instead to embrace the experimental craft of
posthypnotic suggestion and rehabilitation through modernism in
music, all the while putting a divine magic spell on us and our
mundane culture.
"Sleeping
Through The War" is a journey into sound that sets fire to
limitations and goes beyond your expectations. The lyrics move like
fusiliers and enrich the songs that support the album. This band has
stuck its neck out on this release, so give the album a chance to
charm you. The oracle has spoken with the prophecy revealed...if you
are troubled, it's time to set your self free. This will be a classic
album and we are fortunate that it was made in our life time...make
room for it along side your other circular friends on the record
shelf.
Words
by Nick Palmisano
Thanks
to Dave at Division PR for the promo. Sleeping Through The War will
be available to buy via New West Records on CD/DD/Vinyl from February
24th 2017.
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