Album Review: L.A.Witch Play With Fire
Make Good Trouble! Play With Fire! These are cultural quotes that, in some ways, remind people that some rules need to be broken. Think about it! Rules are made by the powerful and power corrupts, which means there will be corrupt rules and your response should be to fight them. Yet, that is a tall order that bands/ people like L.A. Witch feel more should rise and enact, of which their new record, Play With Fire, does.
L.A. Witch – I Wanna Lose (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
Out August 21, this album confirms L.A. Witch is 100% retro. They live in that Joan Jett, 80s greaser glam that makes you want to go slam your jukebox and light a cig over your soda pop or take a bat to some square’s precious car. UGH! I love vintage references. You can feel the leather coats and red lipstick that adorn tracks like, “Sexorexia” and “Motorcylce Boy,” as they rev their guitars like Cadillac engines. They are loud, bombastic, urgent, passionate, raw, and 100% everything we need to feel when fighting for our rights. Gaining your equality in your lifetime is an urgent matter because you have too many generations before your told to wait to be treated as human, which, in a way, means stay a savage. Thus, their songs are burning down systems and policies that house hypocrisy and injustice, while watering truths and feelings that bring catharsis.
L.A. WITCH – Gen-Z (Official Audio)
In some ways, L.A. Witch remind me of a truth that, often, I forget about punk and rock: it is camp. It is outlandish, eccentric, and a pure exaggeration of real emotions. While camp is attributed to being lavishly dramatic like, punk and rock, it was born from a desire to be heard. Rock was born from black voices eager to have their heartbreak and anger heard and healed by white, privileged society, while punk-rock was born from the devastation and degradation of working class citizens and their children, who were over being unprotected in jobs that are underpaid and did not inspire human spirits as much as it asked them to just shut up and work. In essence, these genres may be mainstream and glamorized, they were born in grit, and LA Witch, certainly, serve the gritty.
L.A. Witch – True Believers (Official Audio)
From “Dark Horse” to “True Believers,” L.A. Witch have a narrative style to how they approach lyrics and arrangements. It is as if they want you to sit down and listen as they roar and rake through the details of the stories of “Gen-Z” and ‘Fire Starter,” which is exactly what they wanted. Led by vocalist Sade Sanchez, her sultry, lax vocals makes you feel like she is casually pouring gasoline on every plot and setting she touches in the storyline. It is awesome, and it makes Play With Fire an album for role-playing or, at least, when you want to pretend you are a 80’s badass ready to rebel. For More Information On L.A. Witch and to buy Play With on August 21 Click Here.
