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90
With this record, there is Britpop, Radiohead, Spiritualized, grunge, trip-hop and more basking under an astral, space-rock umbrella, and Pumarosa have turned it all into a contorting, ornamental obelisk.
8y
90
Here is an album that embraces every fibre of your being; generous in its awe-inspiring and beautiful moments. It’ll keep you guessing every minute of its hour long run.
9y
80
All ten entries on The Witch are exceptional. As a unit, they compose an engrossing aural experience.
9y
80
Packed full of genius – with a few dips that promised more – for the most part, this does play a little like a Greatest Hits. An impressive achievement from such a new band.
9y
80
While some elements are almost certainly designed for the live experience, this album still serves as a fine introduction to one of the UK's most exciting, new bands.
9y
70
What they’ve produced is a debut album that’s sleek, crisp and engaging. There’s a natural ease to it all – eerie vibes married with a consistent, driving energy.
9y
Just listen this album instead of Devastation !
The witch has a really interesting skeleton of pop/synth/art rock and beautiful reverb vocals. Dragonfly is the best example of what this album is capable of. The songwriting can be a bit obscure and has not necessarly a cohesive thematic but the artistic choices of The Witch worth the listen.
Arty and atmospheric but also has a groove and remains catchy as hell - and yeah, the vocals are a little bit witchy.
London-based art-rock quintet Pumarosa debuts with a multi-faceted album full of colliding ideas and dynamic songwriting-style. Channeling transcendental mysticism into a contemporary indie-rock flavour, the band's well-received record owes as much to Dead Can Dance's ritualistic incursions as to Low-era-Bowie's eastern-tinged glam/art-rock style.
The Witch, as the album suggests, is a dusk-like, moody psychedelic-trip, displaying the group's many influences and fragmented ideas in a ... read more
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Track List
| 1 | Dragonfly 4:41 | |
| 2 | Honey 4:58 | |
| 3 | The Witch 6:37 | |
| 4 | Priestess 7:30 | |
| 5 | Lions' Den 5:52 | |
| 6 | My Gruesome Loving Friend 4:03 | |
| 7 | Red 6:11 | |
| 8 | Barefoot 4:21 | |
| 9 | Hollywood 3:59 | |
| 10 | Snake 6:38 |
Total Length: 54 minutes
