CMJ 2006 Witch Review-Village Voice

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very brief review, hopefully some pics turn up with J wearing that glittering alien-antennae headband…

villagevoice.com/blog/cmj…

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Cue a Halloween themed Witch – Mascis with a glittering alien-antennae headband on his freakishly white witch’s hair, Feathers’ Kyle Thomas in a farmer-John Puritan high-peaked hat – who began with Mascis’ man-sized bass drum. The secret to the band’s rounded-out, heavy-smoke drift, it turns out, are songs left just 80% finished, the rough-hewn blocks of sound and section dragged into place yet left unsecured. The bass player, Dave Sweetapple, handles the architecture; the rest just gradually drifts up. As a nightcap it’s a good one: the least forced set of songs we’re liable to catch all week, the band light on their feet, playing the kind of metal guys play when they think they might actually get laid before the night ends.

odd little bit about another show…

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Further South, at Northsix’s Teepee showcase, the first notes of actual music I hear at CMJ come from a man wearing wrap-around sunglasses indoors, at night, spread eagle at dead stage-center, massaging dual keyboards. With his head tipped back he’s Chris Cornell with a quarter of the range, and over to my left Witch’s J. Mascis looks positively stunned. Best guess is that we’re watching Kreisor – one prolonged stop at the bar later, and it’s ha ha ha back outside.

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