WICCA PHASE SPRINGS ETERNAL MOSSY OAK SHADOW DENSE FOG #42/100 MAGIC CIRCLE LP
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WICCA PHASE SPRINGS ETERNAL
“MOSSY OAK SHADOW”
RUN FOR COVER MAGIC CIRCLE SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE
DENSE FOG VINYL LP
WITH HAND NUMBERED OBI
LIMITED EDITION NUMBER 42 OF 100 ONLY
BRAND NEW & SEALED
It’s impossible to talk about Wicca Phase Springs Eternal without talking about transformation. For over a decade the singer, songwriter and producer Adam Andrzejewski has used the moniker as a wide creative umbrella, under which he’s made a vast body of work that’s as consistently compelling as it is constantly changing. This deft ability to blend sounds and styles has become his calling card, but no matter the genre signifiers–from rap beats, to new wave synths, to goth atmospherics–the beating heart of WPSE is Andrzejewski’s singular voice and esoteric-yet-emotional lyricism. Those key elements have centred the project through musical explorations, and now on his latest full-length, Mossy Oak Shadow, Andrzejewski really puts them to the test. Shedding thumping 808s and intricate production in favour of a no-frills band and sparse live recording, the album is a stirring collection of hazy folk rock songs that prove Wicca Phase Springs Eternal can truly be anything.
“I always kind of thought that as long as I have the Wicca Phase Springs Eternal name that I can do whatever I want,” Andrzejewski explains. “The name provides a framework for the lyrics and aesthetics of the project–my songwriting with a mystical overlay to it–and as long as I can make something work within that, then the genre doesn’t totally matter.” That daring creative mentality is what steered Andrzejewski when he first started the WPSE project, through his work as a co-founder of the influential GothBoiClique collective, or as member of Thraxxhouse and Misery Club, and even with his punk side project, Pay For Pain. Still, few could have guessed that the new proper Wicca Phase Springs Eternal release would be a set of country-leaning folk songs performed without a wink in sight. As with all things Wicca Phase, Mossy Oak Shadow finds Andrzejewski fully committed.
Mossy Oak Shadow might seem like a drastic pivot for the Wicca Phase Springs Eternal fans who got on board through his beat-driven modern classic albums, like 2016’s Secret Boy or 2018’s Suffer On–but it shouldn’t come as a total surprise. WPSE releases have always dabbled in stripped-down acoustic songs, and even further back there’s Andrzejewski’s earlier work as a member of emo/indie stalwarts Tigers Jaw. When he left that band to focus on Wicca Phase in 2013, he was met with scepticism from listeners who were hesitant to embrace his new persona and experimental trap sound. Ironically now Andrzejewski has so thoroughly established Wicca Phase Springs Eternal that he’s once again challenging his fans with a stark sonic shift–but this time by returning to the guitar-oriented songwriting he’d set aside. “Dylan, Will Oldman, Richard Thompson–what I like most about those songwriters is that I’m able to trust them,” Andrzejewski explains. “If they do something that’s totally strange I trust that they know what they’re doing because it’s coming from the same person that wrote all these other songs that I love. So even if it might take some time for me to get where they are, I want to try.”
TRACKLIST:
A1 Rough Roads
A2 Horseback
A3 Enchantment
A4 I Just Moved Here
A5 Magic Moment
A6 Meet Me Anywhere
B1 Looking Back
B2 I Get It
B3 Settler's Bend
B4 Last Riders Crew
B5 I Was A Runner Once
RUN FOR COVER RECORDS
CATALOGUE NUMBER: RFC291 / 1 99438 00027 7
2025
CONDITION:
RECORD: SEALED, MINT & UNPLAYED
PICTURE SLEEVE: SEALED, MINT
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