Track Of The Day: Witch Fever – ‘Toothless’

Having blown us away with their live show at The Finsbury back in January, and received acclaim for their immense last single ‘Carpet Asphyxiation’, Manchester’s Witch Fever are back to blast into our ears with another raging offering.

Propelled by thrashing riffs and pummelling beats, ‘Toothless’ immediately hits you with its intense, ferocious energy. Oozing the seething, snarling power of front-woman Amy’s vocals, it’s another explosive slice of raw, grunge-fuelled rock that once again proves Witch Fever to be a unique, formidable force to be reckoned with.

(*Strobe Warning*)

‘Toothless’ is out now via Black Bleach Records.

Mari Lane
@marimindles

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ALBUM: Tess Roby – ‘Beacon’

If you are looking for a soundtrack for your fresh Spring evenings, Montreal-based Tess Roby’s debut album Beacon will envelop you in dreamy waves of poetic synthpop. Accompanied by her brother Eliot Roby on guitar, the album is an homage to their father (who died in 2015). Recorded with the drum machines and synthesizers she found in her father’s recording studio, the album evokes the intimacy of family in the beautiful dawn and mist of Tess’s voice.

Kicking off the album with a laidback pop start, ‘Given Signs’ opens out into sparkling guitar hooks, offering belief and hope – “holding onto to given signs, everything you saw in me.” The two singles ‘Catalyst’ and ‘Ballad 5’ are melancholic and reflective, bringing love to the surface in an ethereal arrangement where every single sound has a meaning in hypnotic repetition.

Elsewhere, whispers, memories, and pain are explored. Experiments with found sounds consolidate the overall cinematic effects; in the wind song used in ‘Air above Mirage’, for example, and the chiming Zen-like effects in the funereal ‘Tripling’ – “When I feel nothing is when I am most present.”

Featuring eight tracks of lucid dream pop, the album inhabits the liminal spaces between light and dark, memory and experience. Each song is a carefully crafted cinematic piece, echoing with classic sounds you think you may have heard before – perhaps because it is brimming with latent melodies from classic ’60s to ’80s pop (echoes of the Exorcist soundtrack even!) brought back to life. A debut with depth; listen to the songs and let them bathe you in hypnotic hues of melody and visuals.

Beacon, the upcoming album from Tess Roby, is out 4th May via Italians Do It Better.

Fi Ni Aicead
@gotnomoniker

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LISTEN: Loveday – ‘Close’

‘Close’ is the debut single from seventeen year old Midlands-based singer Loveday.

The lo-fi distortion within the intro to ‘Close’ gently evokes chilled out summer days whilst the stripped back electronic sounds create the illusion of a warm, hazy atmosphere. Displaying her strong integrity as a songwriter within her confessional lyrics, Loveday’s velveteen vocals soar – “I won’t say that I need you / can’t say it if it’s not true.”  Loveday explains of the track:

“Its just like a mini-anthem to just being true to yourself, being unafraid to say how you really feel and to just let go a bit.”

‘Close’ showcases Loveday’s unique sound and how comfortable she is within her creative sphere. It’s a perfect summer single, marking this young artist out as a definite one to watch.

 

Nicky Lee-Delisle
@Nicky___Lee

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Introducing Interview: Domino Kirke

Born into a family of creatives, Domino Kirke was a student of piano and vocal performance at New York’s prestigious LaGuardia High School of Music & Performing Arts and signed her first record deal as a teenager – collaborating with Grammy-winning producer and artist Mark Ronson (Adele, Bruno Mars, Amy Winehouse). Having toured the world with everyone from Gang of Four to Lily Allen with her band DOMINO, she’s now received praise from the likes of TIME, Billboard and Nylon for her debut solo album Beyond Waves. 

We caught up with Domino to find out more…

Hi Domino, welcome to Get In Her Ears! Can you tell us a bit about yourself and what you do?
I’m Domino Kirke, a singer-songwriter, and I just released my first solo LP! I’m also a doula and birth educator. I run a Doula Collective called Carriage House Birth in Brooklyn, New York.

How did you initially get into creating music?
I’ve always played music. I sang in choirs and I started taking piano lessons from the age of six. I started writing music when I was about eleven, and we always had recording studios in my home growing up because my dad is a musician. I then went to performing arts high school in New York.

Your new album Beyond Waves is out this summer, can you tell us a bit about it? Are there any ongoing themes running throughout it?
It’s really like one long diary entry. Each song is a snap shot of a different family member.

Your songs have a very distinctive, and captivating, bohemian folk style, but who would you consider to be your main musical influences?
I really love Sybille Baier, Lhasa De Sela, Joan As Police Woman, Townes Van Zandt and Luke Temple (co writer of my record) – they’re all big influences.

How is your local music scene? Do you go to see much live music?
It’s booming! I’ve lived in Williamsburg for fifteen years. I live a block away from all the best venues, so get out when I can.

And what can fans expect from your live shows?
I’ve heard from people that my live set is very “meditative” so, that’s nice!

As we’re a new music focused site, are there any upcoming bands/artists who you’d recommend we check out?
Oh! Bedouine.

And how do you feel the industry is for new artists at the moment? Coming from a musical family, would you say it’s more difficult to get noticed and make a name for yourself now than it used to be?
It’s a whole new world. I’m still getting used to it!

Finally, what does the rest of 2018 have in store for Domino Kirke?
I’m touring in the fall, and I’m playing shows in New York and Los Angeles this summer!

Huge thanks to Domino for answering our questions! 

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