The Vineyard Podcast Episode 36: Irita Pai (L.A. Witch)

Moving pool tables, getting arrested in Wyoming, and working against a deadline. Irita Pai (L.A. Witch)

"The name is a partial misnomer. Though the band hails from Los Angeles, they do not partake in any sort of witchcraft. Yet their ability to conjure a specific time and place through their sound does suggest a kind of magic. On their eponymous debut album, L.A. Witch’s reverb-drenched guitar jangle and sultry vocals conjure the analog sound of a collector’s prized 45 from some short-lived footnote cult band. The melodies forgo the bubblegum pop for a druggy haze that straddles the line between seedy glory and ominous balladry; the production can’t afford Phil Spector’s wall-of-sound, but the instruments’ simple beauty provides an economic grace that renders studio trickery unnecessary; the lyrics seem more descendent of Johnny Cash’s first-person morality tales than the vacuous empty gestures of pre-fab pop bands. This isn’t music for the masses; it’s music for miscreants, burnouts, down-and-out dreamers, and obsessive historians." Excerpt from https://suicide-squeeze.myshopify.com/products/la-witch-la-witch

L.A. Witch:
Bandcamp: https://lawitches.bandcamp.com
Instagram: @la_witch
Website: https://lawitch.tumblr.com
Merch: https://suicide-squeeze.myshopify.com/products/la-witch-la-witch

The Vineyard:
Instagram: @thevineyardpodcast
Website: https://www.thevineyardpodcast.com
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@thevineyardpodcast