ALL THEM WITCHES
Nothing As The Ideal NEW WEST
Nashville’s hypnotic ramblers rediscover their musical path
2018’s ATW was the first time All Them Witches came unstuck. Their previous brooding stoner rock, psychedelia, dirty blues and spiritual introspection was hypnotic and unpredictable, making the repetitive cut-and-paste phrases of that last album monotonous. Yet the newly pared-down trio have concocted a strikingly different brew. Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, Nothing As The Ideal does its legendary setting justice in multitudinous ways. Steeped in sonorous depth and texture, it’s the most mature this band have ever sounded. The swelling anguish of 41 sounds like Arctic Monkeys jamming over a turbine while the Mastodon-indebted chimes of Lights Out reveal a huge advance in songcraft and a rebirth for a band who always worshipped the past.