This World, Then The Fireworks

The Witch Hazel Sound’s latest creation inhabits a mystical, mythical fourth dimension, recalling eras past yet shot through with a fractal-fractured future still shimmering in the wings… A more intimate and earthy affair than their previous releases, it seems that rather than being bundled up in their varied influences, in this breath The Witch Hazel Sound have found themselves in their music. Yet for all the close-up connection it is still a grand collection of blessed baroque-pop, crystalline psychedelia, cozy 70s AM radio verisimilitude and winsome space-folk, infused with ether-worldly atmospheres. While names like Brian Wilson and Van Dyk Parks, Arthur Lee and Phil Spector are fully suitable touchstones, there are the modern equivalents as well, like Mercury Rev and Grandaddy, The Lassie Foundation and Kingsbury Manx… Previous and critically acclaimed Flydaddy and Camera Obscura releases charted an evolution, ‘This World, Then the Fireworks…’ is The Witch Hazel Sound’s epic revolution.