Brighton trio Esben and the Witch have just put the video for their debut single, 'Lucia, at the Precipice' online, which you can see below. The limited-edition 7", backed by 'They Use Smiles to Bury You', came out via the Too Pure Singles Club last month and sold out immediately.
Esben and the Witch are a new(ish) three-piece band from Brighton slowly accumulating hype amid the blogosphere. They named themselves after a Danish fairy story and there is plenty of susurrus about their wiccan tendencies. Their music is difficult to categorise: a blend of ambient shimmers, Portishead-influenced indie rock, and Bjork-like glitch, it is ethereal, spooky and often quite breathtakingly good. Currently preparing to tour across the UK with the Big Pink in May, Esben and the Witch has released a new seven-inch single, which includes the stunning "Lucia, at the Precipice". Here is its eerie video, black and white [...]
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Cooking up the sort of media storm that can only be brewed with the aid of black magic, adolescent eyeballs and a handful of earlobes from the globe's finest music journalists, Brighton's Esben and the Witch draw on an almost mystical broth of minimal analog wizardry, enthralling siren-like androgynous muffles and mumbles and a healthy obsession for the mythical. Upon listening to the likes of the hallucinatory Lucia, At the Precipice and wailing Marching Song it's painstakingly clear that Esben doesn't require a Hogwarts degree to qualify such magnificent musical witchcraft. Two downsides: 1) Their homemade EP limited [...]
It's funny how things happen sometimes. This week we were swapping e-mails with our pal Ronan - he is the fount of all knowledge where music in Oxford is concerned and for years has produced an excellent local, free music paper called Nightshift . He mentioned next weekend he was off to see Esben & The Witch at the Jericho Tavern (13th Feb). Next time we're on the web who do we come across quite by chance...so we had a listen. The band [...]
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We went to see Esben and The Witch at The Hobby Horse on Thursday, who are quite frankly, amazing! Haunting Portishead style sound with layers of triphop, rock, folk and more? It's hard to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Esben And The Witch - Marching Song
Now into their third year, Too Pure have announced their first three releases of 2010 with I Was A King, Esben And The Witch and JEFF The Brotherhood all of which will be signed by the artists.
(Gothic/Pop/Trip-hop/Ambient) Esben and the Witch are a Brighton three-piece who don't just have some of the most haunting gothic pop songs of the last decade to boast - they have one of the most concise and chilling band images to match. Naming themselves after a Danish fairytale , they fill their music with ancient medieval references and litter their myspace page with wood-styled carvings of skulls and forests. In keeping with the mystery surrounding their descent - they provide only first [...]
If Florence fronted the xx… It would be quite brilliant, and quite like this. Expecting big things from Esben & The Witch in 2010. Not in the La Roux's sell-lots-of-average-records vein of "big", but more down the xx's "universally acclaimed, but not quite munching on cash" route. Quite shocking that I managed to mention the xx twice in the previous three sentences, and if that isn't persuasion enough to get involved with Esben & The Witch, then they're just not for you. Esben And The Witch – About This Peninsula [...]
Been meaning to post about Esben And The Witch for a while now but we've finally been sprung into action after unceremoniously slipping and tripping through the treacherous weather conditions to catch their enchanting live show at omnipotent London clubnight White Heat a couple of evenings ago. The Brighton trio craft a cinematic séance-pop that sees Rachel Davies illuminate the dark recesses of cavernous tracks like 'Marching Song' with all that is brooding, twisted and lovesore. Esben And The Witch - Marching Song [...]
Mardrömspop. Så beskrivs Esben and the Witch , den upp och kommande trion från Brighton som de senaste månaderna agerat stöttepelare live åt bl.a. The XX och Deerhunter. Underbar och episk mardrömspop är det. Deras nya EP 33 kickar röv och den är gratis. Do not sleep on this, som den gamle sa till havet Esben and the Witch - Marching song Esben and the Witch - Corridors Esben and the Witch - 33 (free ep)
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words: Jamie Milton originally scribed for gigwise.com When The xx first emerged, a lot of the press began to fall head over heels in love with the vocals above the beats, the minimalism, the vital components of what makes the self-titled debut so irresistibly dense and inventive. Oliver Sim and Romy Madley-Croft were the voices in question - Sim's husky, soulful voice harmonising with Madley-Croft's simple, retrospective tones. You wouldn't have been a fool in thinking that this was just a two-piece who relied on tape players [...]
photo source : Paper Tissue Minutes, hours even, I have spent in the company of Esben and the Witch's music. And throughout, I've felt like I've totally understood their sound, to an intimate level, so much so that I had this phrase coined to perfectly describe their music: "Nightmare pop". Yes, perfect, I thought. As a music "journo" it's always very gratifying when you write something down and get this great sense of self-satisfaction. But then, mere seconds later, to my disbelief, I glanced sideways from the music player on their myspace profile, towards the [...]
Words by Cara Bermingham I actually got to the Freebutt early for once but we were enjoying the music in the bar upstairs so much (Black Sabbath) that I only got to catch approximately 45 seconds of the first band Esben and the Witch, but do you know what, it was pretty good actually! They had an owl and a lamppost on stage with them and the audience were really enjoying it. Not normally a first-band-on kind of atmosphere, so it looks like they already have a fair few followers and I will make a point of seeing [...]
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