"hush...sentinels..."
It is hard to pin point the things that are centrifuged out sonically, at least what I imagine those things, that became "The Sentinels" by West Wickhams, a one Jon Othello and Elle Flores "a psyschedelique Garage Noir Deux", originally from Tresco on the Isles of Scilly. If I would venture a descriptor here, I might say shoegaze proto punk or art horror pop or just say, fuck it listen to them. For me their sound is all about the wonky, hallucinogenic mood they craft where the sonics might be more important than what is being said. The words do linger though like bittersweet fruit to be picked out of the percolating haze and "shhhhhhh". I love the mood, the aloof nature of the vox and the plucky sounds and denatured keys.
Listening to "The Sentinels" I am feeling the nucleic acid of artists like The Cramps, Bauhaus, The Ghastly Ones and The Cure (yes, the Cure).
Press notey stuff reveal West Wickhams' influences and what a list it is.
Whitby Abbey, Pipe Organs, Flowers, Polka Dot Cats, Dark Punk, Gothic Novels and Rock n Roll Autobiographies, Castles, Abstract Painting, Euphoria, Mist, Autumn, Halloween, Optical Illusions, Edgar Allan Poe and Andy Warhol.
"The Sentinels" is from West Wickhams' current EP "Magenta", I hope you enjoy.
-Robb Donker Curtius
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0X49W08yp8N1gNrwr8liet
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https://westwickhams.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/westwickhams01/
West Wickhams are Jon Othello and Elle Flores, a psyschedelique Garage Noir Deux peace, originally from Tresco on the Isles of Scilly.
Tresco is famously the island of lost souls and is home to subtropical plants and shipwrecked figureheads.
They recently relocated to Richmond, Surrey, where the creatures rule.
West Wickhams are an imagined rival gang to punk style icons the Bromley Contingent.
West Wickhams, post punk, indie electronic, dark wave, gothic, Tresco on the Isles of Scilly, Jon Othello and Elle Flores, "a psyschedelique Garage Noir Deux", EP "Magenta", "The Sentinels" (Official Video),
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0X49W08yp8N1gNrwr8liet
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQlAzsRNMNkEpPWXKSWhZYw
https://westwickhams.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/westwickhams01/
West Wickhams are Jon Othello and Elle Flores, a psyschedelique Garage Noir Deux peace, originally from Tresco on the Isles of Scilly.
Tresco is famously the island of lost souls and is home to subtropical plants and shipwrecked figureheads.
They recently relocated to Richmond, Surrey, where the creatures rule.
West Wickhams are an imagined rival gang to punk style icons the Bromley Contingent.
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