New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Ahead of the release of their new album 'ATW' this coming Friday, ALL THEM WITCHES have shared details of two rare European festival appearances.
Expanding on their headlining European tour dates in April and May, the Nashville-based psych-rock group have revealed details of two key festival appearances in London and Berlin early next year.
Joining the likes of Colour Haze, Earthless and Witch, the band will take part in two events at next year's annual Desertfest. Taking place over the Early May Bank Holiday weekend (03 - 05 May 2019) All Them Witches will play both the London and Berlin legs of the international festival which comes together each year to celebrate the very best of stoner, doom, sludge and psych genres. Early-bird tickets have already sold out for Desertfest, however standard tickets are still available online:
London: https://www.desertfest.co.uk
Berlin: https://www.desertfest.de
All Them Witches recently announced a lengthy run of headlining tour dates in support of their fifth studio album 'ATW' which is set for release this coming Friday (28th September) on New West Records.
Click here to stream 'Diamond' the latest single from All Them Witches: https://youtu.be/kh1Jd8xU42U.
TOUR DATES
Apr 11: On The Rocks, Helsinki, Finland
Apr 13: John Dee, Oslo, Norway
Apr 14: Debaser, Stockholm, Sweden
Apr 15: Hotel Cecil, Copenhagen, Denmark
Apr 17: De Zwerver, Leffinge, Belgium
Apr 18: De Casino, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
Apr 19: MOD, Hasselt, Belgium
Apr 22: Maroquinerie, Paris, France
Apr 24: Caracol, Madrid, Spain
Apr 25: Razzmatazz 2, Barcelona, Spain
Apr 26: Paloma Club, Nimes, France
Apr 27: Bloom, Milan, Italy
Apr 29: Arena, Vienna, Austria
Apr 30: Rock Cafe, Prague, Czech Republic
May 01: U Bazyla, Poznan, Poland
May 02: Hydrozagadka, Warsaw, Poland
May 03 - 05 - Desertfest, London & Berlin
May 04: Sonic Whip Festival, Nijmegen, Netherlands
May 06: The Haunt, Brighton, UK
May 08: Band On The Wall, Manchester, UK
May 09: Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, UK
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By most fifth LPs, the band's sound is pretty set. Parameters established. Refinement dissipated. You get a to-formula execution of what's worked in the past. Fair enough. All Them Witches go a harder route.
In 2017, the Nashville four-piece offered what might've otherwise become their own template in their fourth album (second for New West), Sleeping Through the War. It brought a larger production value thanks to oversight from producer Dave Cobb (Jason Isbell, Shooter Jennings, etc.), found them using choral vocals, expanded arrangements, bigger sounds than anything they'd done before.
They could've easily fallen into a pattern of watered-down clones of that record. Easily.
So naturally in a year they've thrown it all to the Appalachian wind, turned the process completely on its head and gone the other way: recording in a cabin in Kingston Springs, about 20 miles outside of Nashville on I-40, with guitarist Ben McLeod at the helm. Self-produced. Take that, expectation.
The result, mixed by Rob Schnapf (Beck, Elliott Smith, Kurt Vile), is the most intimate, human-sounding album All Them Witches have recorded and another redefinition of who they are as a band. Introducing keyboardist/percussionist Jonathan Draper to the fold with McLeod, bassist/vocalist Charles Michael Parks, Jr., and drummer/graphic artist Robby Staebler, All Them Witches' ATW isn't self-titled by mistake.
It's the band confirming and continuing to develop their approach, in the devil's boogie of "Fishbelly 86 Onions," the organ-laced groove and masterful flow of "Half-Tongue," the build of "HJTC" and the fluid jam in closer "Rob's Dream." You can hear it in the mellow patience of that last track, never lost but always wandering, and in "1st vs. 2nd," where they turn from a frenetic shake to some purposefully metal-ish riffing while still holding onto gut-tightening tension.
And what do they do with that? Some overblown payoff? Hell no. They cut it short, drift into noise and then dig into "Half-Tongue" ahead of the moodier "Diamond," which, true to its name, seems to turn any light that touches it into a prism. This is a band who delight in the exploration, in finding new rules to break, and in continually learning new ways to do so.
ATW is a reaction to being a "bigger" act. To playing bigger shows, bigger tours, etc. From the sustained consonants in Parks' vocals, to the sleek basslines that play off the can't-sit-still-won't-sit-still swing in Staebler's drums, to McLeod's commanding slide in "Workhorse" and drifting melancholy at the outset of "Harvest Feast," ATW is their laying claim to the essential facets of their identity.
And most crucial to that identity is its shifting nature. All Them Witches didn't get to this point by resting on laurels, and if anything, the urgency of these tracks - fast pushers and sleepy jams alike - is among their greatest strengths.
It's a rawer delivery, as stage-ready as the band itself, and it captures All Them Witches in this moment. Is ATW who they'll be tomorrow? Who the hell knows? Check back in and we'll find out together. That's the whole idea.
ALL THEM WITCHES is:
Robby Staebler - drums, percussion, loops
Charles Michael Parks Jr - vocals, bass, loops
Ben McLeod - guitars
ALL THEM WITCHES online:
Web: allthemwitches.org
Facebook: facebook.com/allthemwitches
Instagram: instagram.com/allthemwitchesband
Twitter: twitter.com/allthemwitches
