Pennsylvania-based singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Adam Andrzejewski has introduced a brand new Wicca Part Springs Everlasting album. Mossy Oak Shadow, the follow-up to his 2023 self-titled LP, arrives September 19 through Run for Cowl. Accompanying the announcement are two new songs ‘Horseback’ and ‘Enchantment’, which mark the venture’s shift towards folky, uncooked songwriting whereas sounding fairly upbeat. “Seasons previous are heading again in darkish, acquainted methods/ Bonnie ghosts from down the coast in swimming pools of shadow wade,” Andrzejewski sings on the latter. Take a hear under.
“I all the time form of thought that so long as I’ve the Wicca Part Springs Everlasting identify that I can do no matter I would like,” Andrzejewski stated in a press launch. “The identify supplies a framework for the lyrics and aesthetics of the venture–my songwriting with a mystical overlay to it–and so long as I could make one thing work inside that, then the style doesn’t completely matter.”
“There’s all the time been acoustic songs on my information however often they’re within the context of a beat-based Wicca Part album,” he added. “I believe the concept right here was to only form of begin recent and go laborious on this different route. The temptation is to name it a rustic document, I don’t actually assume it’s that–however there’s acoustic guitar and slide guitar, and I believe my pursuits and themes do have components of nation in type of an archetypical manner.”
Mossy Oak Shadow was produced by Uniform’s Ben Greenberg, who additionally labored on Wicca Part Springs Everlasting’s earlier album. It was recorded with a backing band that includes Greenberg on bass and session musicians Ryan Jewell and David Moore on drums and keys. The music ‘Meet Me Anyplace’ is a collaboration with former duet companion Ethel Cain.
“Dave and Ryan have been guys Ben had labored with, however I’d by no means met them,” Andrzejewski commented. “After we bought there, I had lyrics, chords, and demos–we’d hearken to the demo as soon as, Ben would make some ideas, after which we’d attempt it. I might actually ask ‘do I want to show these guys the songs…’ and Ben would say ‘no they’d determine it out’–they usually did! There was no dialogue, they only bought it. They have been so excellent, Ben included, that it was no totally different than simply singing over a beat or one thing I’d created.”
Mossy Oak Shadow Cowl Art work:
Mossy Oak Shadow Tracklist:
1. Tough Roads
2. Horseback
3. Enchantment
4. I Simply Moved Right here
5. Magic Second
6. Meet Me Anyplace [feat. Ethel Cain]
7. Wanting Again
8. I Get It
9. Settler’s Bend
10. Final Riders Crew
11. I Was A Runner As soon as
