Witch Fever weave doom, punk, goth and noise into the fabric of their second album, FEVEREATEN. Alongside Chris W. Ryan’s production, the four-piece band sounds balanced and unified. Continuing on from their debut, Congregation, FEVEREATEN unpacks religious (and other) trauma through allegory and personal narrative.
Amy Walpole’s raw, nearly feral vocals anchor the album in its emotional core. At the centre of it all is a steady, driving heartbeat: great for screaming into the void about our disenfranchisement. The album builds a familiar sense of otherness, underwritten by experiences coming of age – and now living as adults – under authoritarianism. At the midway point, SAFE features a haunting and ethereal cello theme.
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Delivering on hype is hard, and Witch Fever’s debut album Congregation is released to no shortage of hype – but with the exponential power and ethereal boldness this Manchester quartet possess, they make it look easy.
The first thing to note – and it is immediately obvious – is how appropriate the title Congregation is. With the energy of a wicked preacher compelling and instructing from the pulpit, Amy Walpole snarls. She chews every letter of every word of opener “Blessed Be Thy”, luxuriating in her own delivery, both seemingly self-aware of just how much command she’s wielding, and blissfully absorbed in the words. Religious imagery abounds, translating both literally (written drawing on Walpole’s experiences growing up in…
Well, in all fairness, he DID title it Self-Portrait...