On "Lady Love" - Alabama based Witch's Wall creates a tender bubble that could burst at any minute

AP Track Review

When I close my eyes and see the chase of images racing through my mind while listening to Alabama's Witch's Wall's supremely dreamy track Lady Love I am forever grateful that I started American Pancake over 10 years ago and people actually send me songs like this. Yes, sometimes I have to wade through a bit of muck to find those precious gems but still. Lady Love is from the onset different than so much that is out on the musical landscape today. The syncopated downbeats like playing cards being dealt out on an empty table feels like divergent 60's chamber pop. When the pearly guitar picking (upfront and gliding past your left ear) punches up, with the bass and drums like an every growing heartbeat and then rocks out ( to the extent this song rocks out at all) it feels like 60's Woodstock-ian garden rock. The vox feel like that too (in some ways). In the end you have something mellow, cool and dreamy but frayed around the edges. It is like something is wrong inside the dreamy pop bubble and I like that feeling. 

Expect Witch's Wall's self titled full length debut on Birmingham's Cornelius Chapel Records this coming April (2020).

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Robb Donker
 




THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:

Witch’s Wall crafts a seamless brew of dreamy indie pop and psychedelia-shaded experimental rock. Beginning in northeast Alabama, lead songwriter David Smith was raised in a large family of music enthusiasts. Upon discovering 311 in middle school, and Radiohead in high school, Smith shifted focus to music before relocating to Birmingham. As his tastes changed, so did his songwriting style, and by his twenties Smith was drawing from a deeper well of artistic influence, citing artists like Grizzly Bear, Luke Temple, and Canadian singer-songwriter Andy Shauf as inspirations. After meeting Benjamin Giles (guitar), the pair played in a series of bands before uniting with schoolmates Matthew Perkins (bass) and Brandon Lett (drums) as KYLE. They studied by day, and by evening, they refined their skills on-stage and in Lett’s makeshift home studio. Now aided by Smith’s cousin Dylan Corker (keys), the band began cementing their panoramic indie rock stylings. With a new name and a new focus, Witch’s Wall finished their self- titled full-length debut for Birmingham’s Cornelius Chapel records late last year and plan to release this coming April.