The Wytches have recently swung through our country on tour with Cloud Nothings and Metz, and now the shadowy British rock trio have inked a Canadian deal for their impending debut album. Annabel Dream Reader will be out on August 26 on Dine Alone Records. (The UK release will be handled by Heavenly Recordings, while the U.S. release is on Partisan Records.)
The album was recorded using an analogue 8-track machine at Toe Rag Studios in London. According to a press release, the 13-song album "sees the three-piece accomplish a dark and heady sound that embraces the black arts and the more extreme limits of rock, but which is never prescriptively macabre." Influences include surf rock, grunge, metalcore, spy movie scores and "Egyptianesque harmonic-minor scales."
The tracklist is below. At the bottom of the page, watch videos for the dark psych-grunge tracks' "Gravedweller" and "Wire Frame Mattress."
Also below, see the band's upcoming tour schedule. They will be making their debut Toronto appearance later this month.
Annabel Dream Reader:
1. Digsaw
2. Wide at Midnight
3. Gravedweller
4. Fragile Male for Sale
5. Burn Out the Bruise
6. Wire Frame Mattress
7. Beehive Queen
8. Weights and Ties
9. Part Time Model
10. Summer Again
11. Robe for Juda
12. Crying Clown
13. Track 13
Tour dates:
07/15 Lincoln, NE - Knickerbockers *
07/16 Lawrence, KS - The Granada Theatre *
07/17 St. Louis, MO - The Luminary *
07/21 Toronto, ON - Drake Underground
07/23 Boston, MA - Great Scott
07/24 New York, NY - Mercury Lounge
07/25 Brooklyn, NY - Glasslands
07/26 Philadelphia, PA - Boot & Saddle
08/02 Derbyshire, UK - Y Not Festival
08/01 North Yorkshire, UK - Beacons Festival
08/30 Dorset, UK - End of the Road Festival
08/31 Yorkshire, UK - Bingley Music Live
09/07 Isle of Wight, UK - Bestival
09/14 London, UK - On Blackheath Festival
* with Cloud Nothings, Metz
The album was recorded using an analogue 8-track machine at Toe Rag Studios in London. According to a press release, the 13-song album "sees the three-piece accomplish a dark and heady sound that embraces the black arts and the more extreme limits of rock, but which is never prescriptively macabre." Influences include surf rock, grunge, metalcore, spy movie scores and "Egyptianesque harmonic-minor scales."
The tracklist is below. At the bottom of the page, watch videos for the dark psych-grunge tracks' "Gravedweller" and "Wire Frame Mattress."
Also below, see the band's upcoming tour schedule. They will be making their debut Toronto appearance later this month.
Annabel Dream Reader:
1. Digsaw
2. Wide at Midnight
3. Gravedweller
4. Fragile Male for Sale
5. Burn Out the Bruise
6. Wire Frame Mattress
7. Beehive Queen
8. Weights and Ties
9. Part Time Model
10. Summer Again
11. Robe for Juda
12. Crying Clown
13. Track 13
Tour dates:
07/15 Lincoln, NE - Knickerbockers *
07/16 Lawrence, KS - The Granada Theatre *
07/17 St. Louis, MO - The Luminary *
07/21 Toronto, ON - Drake Underground
07/23 Boston, MA - Great Scott
07/24 New York, NY - Mercury Lounge
07/25 Brooklyn, NY - Glasslands
07/26 Philadelphia, PA - Boot & Saddle
08/02 Derbyshire, UK - Y Not Festival
08/01 North Yorkshire, UK - Beacons Festival
08/30 Dorset, UK - End of the Road Festival
08/31 Yorkshire, UK - Bingley Music Live
09/07 Isle of Wight, UK - Bestival
09/14 London, UK - On Blackheath Festival
* with Cloud Nothings, Metz
