STANDING ROOM ONLY<\/p>\n
KING BUFFALO
\nKing Buffalo is the trio of vocalist\/guitarist Sean McVay, bassist Dan Reynolds, and drummer Scott Donaldson. Since forming in 2013, the self-proclaimed \u201cheavy psych\u201d band has made its name via 4 Full-lengths, 4EPs, and tours with Clutch, Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, All Them Witches, The Sword, and Elder.<\/p>\n
L.A. WITCH
\nL.A. Witch have always exuded an aura of effortless cool, whether it manifested as the Americana noir and laconic back-to-basics rock n\u2019 roll of their self-titled debut or the blistering austere adventurism of their sophomore album Play With Fire. The band\u2014comprised of Sade Sanchez (guitar\/vocals), Irita Pai (bass), and Ellie English (drums)\u2014began as an informal affair, but the sultry and beguiling reverb-draped songs they created caught on with the public, moving the project beyond the insular space of the band\u2019s friends and peers in Southern California into the broader world. On their latest album, DOGGOD, the trio push their craft beyond their previous creative and geographical confines, opting to craft the material in Paris, recording the tracks at Motorbass Studio on the Rue de Martyrs. DOGGOD explores broader swaths of sonic terrain, employs a greater arsenal of tones, and probes larger existential and cosmic themes, all while retaining the band\u2019s signature sense of the forbidden, the forsaken, and the foreboding.
\nDOGGOD is a way of tackling the universal riddle tangled in the spiritual nature of love and devotion. \u201cI feel like I\u2019m some sort of servant or slave to love,\u201d says Sanchez. \u201cThere\u2019s a willingness to die for love in the process of serving it or suffering for it or in search of it\u2026 just in the way a loyal, devoted servant dog would.\u201d The album title is a palindrome fusing together DOG and GOD\u2014an exaltation of the submissive and a subversion of the divine. It\u2019s a nod to the purity of dogs and an acknowledgement of their unconditional love and protective nature that\u2019s at odds with the various pejoratives associated with the species. \u201cThere is this symbolic connection between women and dogs that expresses women\u2019s subordinate position in society,\u201d Sanchez explains. \u201cAnd anything that embodies such divine characteristics never deserved to be a word used as an insult.\u201d<\/p>\n
These conflicted explorations of love and subservience manifest themselves in L.A. Witch\u2019s fusion of their trademark smooth and smoky garage alchemy with a newfound utilization of post-punk\u2019s disciplined reserve and icy instrumentation. Album opener \u201cIcicle\u201d captures the band journeying out of the proto-punk, psychedelia, and gritty riffage of the \u201870s into the chorus-drenched guitars and forlorn minimalism of Joy Division and early The Cure. A parallel is drawn between romantic suicide and martyrdom that carries over into the second song, \u201cKiss Me Deep.\u201d Here Sanchez describes a love so pure that it transcends time and carries over into multiple lifetimes. It\u2019s a song about passion delivered in the worldly and wounded stoicism of early goth pioneers. From there, the band segues into the lead single \u201c777,\u201d a song about devotion to the point of death. A propulsive beat, a driving distorted riff, and Sanchez\u2019s ethereal vocals come together to create a song that\u2019s both dire in its fatalism and sensual in its faithful passion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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