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I've loved you guys since watching you on kexp years ago. you came to kansas city some years back and love seeing you guys live. I bought this tape to play on my radio show ❤️. I hunt you pray and the lines are my fav tracks
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Icicle
Won’t you cleanse my soul
You’re sharp and cold
Purity, come make me bleed
I saw the light
Exposing me
What I didn’t want
The world to see
All the shadows
I always knew follow me
All the shadows
I didn’t want you to see
The dream no longer real
When it all came true
I needed you
To see this through
Icicle
Be the mirror to my soul
Water drops across my chest
Don’t freeze yet and see
this through
Reveal the shadows
I always knew follow me
All the shadows
God, I wish you couldn’t see
You kiss
Me deep
Out of my black sleep
Our secrets run deep
Like king and queen
We must have been kin
Dreamt all the same dreams
Felt the pull of all your strings
I listen for the shimmery
chimes of your chains
There is no end to the sound
We are bound
One more - round
You kiss
Me deep
Out of my black sleep
Dark secrets we keep
Leap into your shadows
Leap into the gallows
It leads to the light
It leads to what’s right
I listen for the shimmery chimes
of your chains
There is no end to the sound
We are bound
One more - round
You loved me like a precious doll
You licked me like a hungry dog
I was your lover in every life
I’m not alone or afraid to die
Wounded warrior
Forlorn soldier
Wounded warrior
Forlorn soldier
It’s good to see you
Fighting for what you believe
It’s good to see you
Fighting for what you believe
Hold on to your bloodlust mind
Does glory lead to our demise?
Hold on to your bloodlust mind
Does glory lead us to our demise?
Don’t forget I too fight by your side
First in line always ready to die
Don’t forget I too fight by your side
First in line I am ready to die
I’ve been driving
In your direction
Deserted
From your affections
Yellow stripes
Dotted lines
Before my hungry
Tired eyes
Smell of blood
You’ve left behind
Scent so
Intertwined
Memories
Become so real
They’re vivid frames
That I could feel
I hunt you pray
I hunt you pray
I hunt you pray
I am a ruin
And I am ready
To collapse
On you - with you
The darkness
In your eyes
Goes on forever
Goes on forever
I hunt you pray
I hunt you pray
I hunt you pray
I’m looking at you with the eyes of love
I’m looking at you with the eyes of love
there is a shine, let it shine
A reflection where there is no time
Pricked my heart on a thistle flower
Reds and blues hard to devour
A crown of thorns heavy in armor
Deconsecrate your beauty and power
Every step I take, I chance a hidden mine
I’ll either strike gold or I’ll blow my mind
Heaven is in your eyes I see
A revelation of what could be
I’m looking at you with the eyes of love
I’m looking at you with the eyes of love
there is a shine, let it shine
A reflection where there is no time
Pricked my heart on a thistle flower
Reds and blues hard to devour
A crown of thorns heavy in armor
Deconsecrate your beauty and power
Every step I take, I chance a hidden mine
I’ll either strike gold or I’ll blow my mind
Heaven is in your eyes I see
A revelation of what could be
You think you have
To trace the lines
Think there’s a path
That leads your life
You have no shame
Telling your lies
You even trick
Your own mind
You float along
Your book of time
You do what’s best
For your mind
You shoot the stars
They’re not aligned
The way you hoped
You trace the lines
You float along
Your book of time
You do what’s best
For your mind
You shoot the stars
They’re not aligned
The way you hoped
You trace the lines
I never felt seen
Until the day you looked
at me
I never thought a gaze
could haunt me
Without you I
Feel lost at sea
I hear the sirens sing
Songs of deity still get
passed by
I watched the clouds creep
Curse my conscience with a sail
Without you I
Feel lost at sea
I’ve hid lifetimes in my mind
Then like a ship sailing closer
to me
The slow unveiling the true
colors of your flag
And now I see that
I’m free lost at sea
You like me best when I’m in distress
Feel I can not do my best
Want me to be down at your feet?
I beg and cry for my relief
DOGGOD, DOGGOD
I am a full-grown dog
You can’t teach me new tricks
I am a full-grown dog
DOGGOD, DOGGOD
Play with primitive impulses
Satisfy what you indulge in
Hang me on a leash
Till I wait for my release
DOGGOD, DOGGOD
You like me best when I’m in distress
Feel I cannot do my best
Want me to be down at your feet?
I beg and cry for my relief
I’ll meet you on the surface
Where it’s not that deep blue
I’ve been holding my breath
There’s so much that I can’t do
There’s so much I wanna say
But I haven’t found the right way
Hangin’ on the iceberg
Yea, I know it’s hard to be heard
I’ll meet you on the surface
Where it’s not that deep blue
I’ve been waiting so long
There’s so much that I can’t do
There’s so much I wanna say
But I haven’t found the right way
Hangin’ on the iceberg
Yea, I know it’s hard to be heard
Meet me on the surface
SOS
I am feeling
Your distress
MAYDAY, MAYDAY
I’m here to stay
Deliverance
Is on its way
I’ll meet you on the surface
Where it’s not that deep blue
I’ve been waiting so long
There’s so much that I can’t do
There’s so much I wanna say
But I haven’t found the right way
Hangin on the iceberg
Yea, I know it’s hard to be heard
Meet me on the surface
SOS
I am feeling
Your distress
MAYDAY, MAYDAY
I’m here to stay
Deliverance
Is on its way
Meet me on the surface
SOS
I am feeling
Your distress
MAYDAY, MAYDAY
I’m here to stay
Deliverance
Is on its way
about
L.A. Witch have always exuded an aura of effortless cool, whether it manifested as the Americana noir and laconic back-to-basics rock n’ roll of their self-titled debut or the blistering austere adventurism of their sophomore album Play With Fire. The band—comprised of Sade Sanchez (guitar/vocals), Irita Pai (bass), and Ellie English (drums)—began as an informal affair, but the sultry and beguiling reverb-draped songs they created caught on with the public, moving the project beyond the insular space of the band’s friends and peers in Southern California into the broader world. On their latest album, DOGGOD, the trio push their craft beyond their previous creative and geographical confines, opting to craft the material in Paris, recording the tracks at Motorbass Studio on the Rue de Martyrs. DOGGOD explores broader swaths of sonic terrain, employs a greater arsenal of tones, and probes larger existential and cosmic themes, all while retaining the band’s signature sense of the forbidden, the forsaken, and the foreboding.
DOGGOD is a way of tackling the universal riddle tangled in the spiritual nature of love and devotion. “I feel like I’m some sort of servant or slave to love,” says Sanchez. “There’s a willingness to die for love in the process of serving it or suffering for it or in search of it… just in the way a loyal, devoted servant dog would.” The album title is a palindrome fusing together DOG and GOD—an exaltation of the submissive and a subversion of the divine. It’s a nod to the purity of dogs and an acknowledgement of their unconditional love and protective nature that’s at odds with the various pejoratives associated with the species. “There is this symbolic connection between women and dogs that expresses women’s subordinate position in society,” Sanchez explains. “And anything that embodies such divine characteristics never deserved to be a word used as an insult.”
These conflicted explorations of love and subservience manifest themselves in L.A. Witch’s fusion of their trademark smooth and smoky garage alchemy with a newfound utilization of post-punk’s disciplined reserve and icy instrumentation. Album opener “Icicle” captures the band journeying out of the proto-punk, psychedelia, and gritty riffage of the ‘70s into the chorus-drenched guitars and forlorn minimalism of Joy Division and early The Cure. A parallel is drawn between romantic suicide and martyrdom that carries over into the second song, “Kiss Me Deep.” Here Sanchez describes a love so pure that it transcends time and carries over into multiple lifetimes. It’s a song about passion delivered in the worldly and wounded stoicism of early goth pioneers. From there, the band segues into the lead single “777,” a song about devotion to the point of death. A propulsive beat, a driving distorted riff, and Sanchez’s ethereal vocals come together to create a song that’s both dire in its fatalism and sensual in its faithful passion.
Across the entirety of DOGGOD, L.A. Witch never strays from their muse. On “I Hunt You Pray,” Pai lays down a hypnotic bass throb while English employs a cyclical krautrock groove and Sanchez paints a picture of an abandoned dog on the roadside, alone in the night, living as both the hunter and the hunted. On “Eyes of Love,” the band harnesses the meditative mid-tempo repetition, deconstructed chords, and esoteric ruminations on love, death, and spirituality that made Lungfish such a beloved entity. It reinforces the parallel between the unwavering love seen in the eyes of a dog and the self-sacrifice of a savior. On “The Lines,” the band takes the propulsive pulse of post-punk and adds an extra dose of chorus to the mix. “Chorus is a modern effect that comes from the idea of replicating the slight pitch discrepancies of a choir. There is a shimmering quality which ties us back into this spiritual godly feel,” Sanchez explains. Coupled with the addition of organ and applied to a brooding minor-key melody, the song simultaneously conjures both the holy and the sacrilegious. The title track “DOGGOD” bears perhaps the strongest resemblance to the material found on the previous album Play With Fire, pitting lean and mean guitars against a scrappy rhythm section and dreamy vocals. But whereas their previous album was a rallying cry to carving one’s own path, “DOGGOD” adheres to the album’s “til death do us part” theme, going so far as to describe a level of submission that crosses over into dangerous and unhealthy places, with Sanchez singing “hang me on a leash / ‘til I wait for my release.”
Ultimately, DOGGOD is a perfect encapsulation of L.A. Witch’s approach. It’s simultaneously romantic and menacing, reverent and profane, a celebration and a lament. It finds the thread between the past and present, taking familiar sounds and revamping them for the modern age. But it also heralds a new era for the band, looking beyond the Kodachrome memories of midcentury America and digging deeper into the medieval and gothic energies of Paris and beyond, all while probing inward at a sullied heart. Suicide Squeeze is proud to release DOGGOD to the world on April 4, 2025.
credits
released April 4, 2025
Recorded at Motorbass Studios in Paris, France
Sade Sanchez - Vocals/Guitar/Synth
Irita Pai - Bass
Ellie English - Drums
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