L.A. Witch are veterans of the Southern California rock scene, with a sound equally tailored to scorching desert drives and downtown warehouse shows. Now, the band shares the new single ‘The Lines’ which arrives ahead of the album DOGGOD, out April 4 via Suicide Squeeze Records. ‘The Lines’ opens with a chugging bassline and pummeling drums, which are peppered with fluorescent, wiry guitar riffs. “You shoot the stars / They’re not aligned / The way you hoped / You trace the lines,” Sade Sanchez talk-sings in the chorus. Fusing darkwave, punk, and psychedelia, it emphasises L.A. Witch’s exciting feverishness.
The video for ‘The Lines’ features ASL interpreter and dancer, Lark Detweiler. On the video, director Sydney Mills says: “The ASL featured in the video is a unique expression of the emotions in Sade Sanchez’s lyrics, personally interpreted and translated by Detweiler. The song ‘The Lines’ features repeating lyrics, but Detweiler wanted to explore the many ways ASL can represent “lines”—tracing the shape of a person, drawing a boundary between two people, or even shooting an arrow toward the stars—each reflecting how humans redefine and interact with lines in unique ways.
“By interpreting language into movement, we can express something deep about the struggles of being alive, stuck with a body beyond our control with feeling that can’t always been expressed with words alone. Some of us have to sing. Some play music. Some dance. Some sign. In ‘The Lines,’ Detweiler is a warrior apostle, calling us toward a realm where the raw, blaring sounds of L.A. Witch ignites both ecstasy and the rebellion of true expression.”
On the track, member Sade Sanchez shares: “’The Lines’ for me is a key song in terms of production on this album and the shift in our sound. We used a lot of effects we hadn’t utilized as much before like Chorus, Flanger, and string machines including the Solina and Roland VP330. This is the link between our surfy, California garage influences and our faster, colder influences…You could even say our more European influences.”
