Esben & The Witch bring their atmospheric, moody, goth-tinged melodramatic rock to Comet Club. I was in a record shop last week and someone put this on and scared this crap outta me, it’s intense, loud stuff all seething keyboards and shuffling moody guitars and echoey vocals. So the goth revival continues unabated.
These kids formed in Brighton in 2008 and have the curious honour of being the only British act on Matador Records…which is akin to people saying, hey you, you’re awesome. They even wrote nice things about them:
Esben and the Witch have forged a sound that springs forth from minds soaked in influences far and beyond any standard set of musical touchstones. Nature and literature, art and science, history and the unknown – the trio eschews the everyday for inspiration drawn from sources weird and wonderful, as well as the occasional Scott Walker and PJ Harvey record.
Their debut album Violet Cries is just out and scaring people in record shops the world over.
We’ll let this video colour your vision of this intriguing band, although there’s not much colour to be seen, it’s bleak stuff to say the least, I won’t be watching this ever again. It’s called Marching Song.
