Sometimes cover art can speak volumes to the contents of a record within. The latest collection of soundscapes from Party Trash is adorned with a highly data-moshed image that may be a lake, or a waterfall or a dirty puddle. It’s hard to tell. The music itself is ambient and atmospheric, a little warbly at times and always slowly moving.

The previous release from the outfit, Squares, was a full-on hyperactive presentation. Into the Mist is the opposite; a slow walk into the void.

I’m going to be completely honest here; I’m not entirely sure what the story is behind this collaboration of Carmen Canedo and Dream Wave (aka Kelton Young). The first three tracks of the EP also appear on Canedo’s Wheel’s Are Turning album, though some new arrangements and instrumentation are applied herein. The back half of the EP features a surprisingly compelling passage reading of Winning Through Enlightenment and two songs, presumably, sung by Young himself.

What I do know is that Dream Wave has a lot of releases out in the world and this Canedo collaboration is just another example of his prowess for juggling genres. This is a great starting point for diving into the full catalog of offerings.

Taken from their most recent release, Move On, The By Gods just released an official video for the track “Wait Up.” It’s a rather gorgeous looking video that cuts between some high contrast black-and-white footage and extremely saturated close-ups of the band having a good time in front of some colorful sheets. Oh, and some little dogs. Plenty of adorably tiny dogs.

For a band that has a fairly dark sound overall, they certainly know how to have fun with a music video. I’ve often compared the visual output of the band with some of the works of The Pixies early-to-mid 90’s videos and I stand by that. “Wait Up” continues the trend of feeling familiar but still fresh and uniquely their own.

Cities Under Cities is a show on WXNA hosted by Kelsey Delaney that hosts a different band each week and has them perform in studio. The result is both a compelling chunk of radio but, also, a large repository of recordings of said sets. Many of those sets are available over on the shows Bandcamp page for free streaming.

The latest performance posted is the Feb 24th set from Bleary (a band that we also recently featured on the WOTT Music podcast) and it’s a refreshing take from the new band. Cities Under Cities describes them as “shoegazey dream pop” and that’s an apt description for the sounds captured here.

Back in October, Kim Logan released Pseudoscience: Chapter 3, the third installment of singles exploring a variety of different genres. The lead track, “Ladyboy”, now has an official video featuring Logan and the titular Ladyboy (presumably) performing the track in a number of different locations.

Ahead of his April 20th Third Man debut, Mr. Jukebox, Joshua Hedley has released another song for your enjoyment. “I Never (Shed a Tear)” has classic country all over it with more than a hint of R&B influence with the backing vocals. Whatever the full-length contains, it’s going to be refreshing.

We love a good cover anytime but this Sun Seeker cover of “I’ll Be Here in the Morning” from Townes Van Zandt is especially timely today, March 7th, 2018, as it is Mr. VZ’s day of birth. Sure, he died back in 1997 but there’s never a bad time to hear his work as interpreted by a modern day band.

BONUS cover: And The Relatives covered “Be Here To Love Me” with Caitlin Rose back in 2009. Still worth a listen.

The four song EP covers some interesting ground. They’re offering a nearly six-minute version of the traditional folk song “Hares on the Mountain”, a Fleetwood Mac cover of “Before the Beginning” and two reworks of previous released songs off of Dying Surfer Meets His Maker.

On the whole, the tracks never rise to the level of ferocious doom that many other All Them Witches tracks explore but it’s a refreshing bit of diversity from the band; more laid back but still perfectly ominous.