Premiere: Auld Spells' dark protoplasmic dream pop poetry of "Dead Gurl" (Official Video)

"Dead Gurl, what where you doing there that night?"

“Dead Gurl,” the 4th single from Edinburgh’s Auld Spells contrasts pleasant dream pop sounds with dark and poetic lyricism. The track twists classic pop with hazy shoegaze to create a brooding yet hopeful mood. Twin Peaks comes to mind with the strangely brewed atmosphere of death and mystery paired with Julee Cruise and Angelo Badalamenti’s surreal compositions. The track’s video by Sydney Mills encapsulates that style, meshing pastel tones and colored light with cloudy water and gooey blood. The band has been together for only a year and we look forward to what comes next. Listen to “Dead Gurl” and let the video put you in a dream state trance.

-Alyssa Holland 

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Auld Spells makes psychotropic sounds with dreampop undertones. The Edinburgh-based five piece is made up of lead singer and guitarist Tommy Danbury; keyboardist Rob Spellsman; drummer Peter Wilson of the band Rome and Murray and Sandy Raeburn of the Raeburn Brothers on guitar and bass. The band’s reverb-drenched melodies – in the vein of Beach House, Neil Young, Nick Cave, My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive – brew a luminous tonic for strange times.

Tommy, the band’s principle songwriter, started in Washington DC’s 90’s hardcore punk scene before venturing into the indie and psych scenes of Virginia. In Los Angeles, he helped found the shoegaze band Lower Heaven as lead guitarist then joined the psych band Magic Mirror as their bass player. He’s shared the stage with Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Black Angels, Dead Meadow, The Warlocks, Spindrift, The Lilys, Wooden Shjips, and others on legendary stages such as the Wiltern and the Troubadour.

Auld Spells formed in 2019 when Tommy relocated to Edinburgh. The band has headlined shows at local Edinburgh venues Leith Depot, Henry’s Cellar Bar, and Sneaky Petes and has been busy in the studio, waiting for venues to reopen and releasing a song a month for the foreseeable future.

Their latest release "The Moon" was featured as a BBC Introducing act on BBC Radio Scotland by DJ Vic Galloway.

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