One of the many reasons to love Bog Witch is that you never know what you are going to get. Sure, you know it is going to be different, a unique blend of chaotic folk and…well, anything that takes Wendy DuMond’s sonic fancy. You know it will be unlike much, if anything, you have heard before. You know that it will be fun, creative, brilliantly bizarre, and all the rest, but you won’t be able to predict what is coming. Not in any real terms. How great is that?
So, after the Lewis Carroll-soaked New Orleans-infused twisted jazz-folk of “Hatter’s Mad Emporium” and lilting island vibes of “Mr Fly”, we find ourselves in the fever-dream that is “Dream Birds.”
It’s a lovely, seductive sound, a folky array of strummed ukulele and voice, and just the occasional sonic motif or musical adornment that helps hide the nightmarish images being laid out in the lyrics. “Exploring the space between fear and comfort…” it feels like a piece of folklore, a story that hides deeper meanings, a pesher or parable designed to make us think, delve, and divine rather than just take it at face value.
Like all good music, “Dream Birds” can be just experienced, music to lull and soothe, a cool tune to brighten the moment. But like all great music, you can lose yourself in its folds and deeper experience, relate to its lyrics, which, when you begin to reflect on them, are not so arbitrary or art-for-art’s-sake as you might have first thought.
Deep, meaningful and marvellous!
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