Single of the Week: The Wytches – ‘Burn Out The Bruise’

It’s that time again, it’s Single of the Week! Firstly, I’d like to thank my inability to maintain any sort of relationship for keeping me single and making my receiving of this award possible… Oh, one of the voices inside my head has just informed me that when I was ‘awarded’ Single of the Week, it was on the grounds of choosing a single, in the music release sense, of the week and not an award celebrating my forever-alone-liness. Hoping that you have a really short memory…

HEY! It’s that time again, it’s Single of the Week, and boy do we have a single for you this week! The music single of which I speak? ‘Burn Out The Bruise’ by The Wytches.

The Wytches are a trio of reprobates, currently, based in Brighton who, in their own words, churn out music in the style of ‘surf doom’. For those who lack the imagination to wonder what that might sound like, it sounds like a blend of surf rock, garage, rock and/or roll, and psychedelia that isn’t afraid of the big Black Sabbath. They’ve been rocking and rolling, surfing and dooming since about 2011, but this summer has seen the release of their debut album Annabel Dream Reader.

This week saw them release a taster of said album for those who like a nibble before enjoying a full meal. That nibble is the aforementioned Burn Out The Bruise, our Single of the Week. A song that starts out with a rhythmic building of psychedelic tension and doom, before settling into a freaky groove, which gets you all comfortable and swinging, before it gets all bad trip on you and has a complete wig out in your hallucinating face.

Fuzzy bass, R&B drum groove, twanged guitar, multicoloured feedback, and vocal meltdowns. You know you want to. Oh, and the video is all cross-dressing, religious imagery, stumbling surrealism, shoddy 60s horror film camera, and The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party meets The Last Supper. Enjoy!

God, I’m lonely.