SEVEN NOISES

I blogged about Esben and the Witch a couple of months ago and as has happened before in many occasions, they've upgraded their status some points up thanks to a couple of mentions on Pitchfork, one of them being the news about this single, Lucia At The Precipice, the last of the incursions of the always exciting Too Pure singles club, which means is a limited edition of 500 that will never be repressed. This song and the B side They Use Smiles To Bury You, follow the same patterns as the songs that appeared on their first EP 33, although Lucia is even more atmospheric and abstract that any of the songs they've done before and by the end of the song you can even think about the XX with those programmed rhythms although less minimal and more tragic. They are currently touring opening for them, Big Pink or Efterklang so maybe you will have the chance to see them live.

Esben And The Witch - Lucia At The Precipice.mp3

The fourth single from Peggy Sue (and the Pirates, Pictures or Triplets in previous editions but now just Peggy Sue), the once duo now trio from Brighton, is released in the legendary Too Pure Singles Club, the only part of Too Pure that still exits as the label was first absorbed by 4AD and disappeared last year for good. And it's proof again that the voices of Katy and Rosa are the best combination of female vocals since Laetitia Sadier and Marie Hansen from Stereolab. Musically they have not changed so much since last year's two double 7 releases (acoustic guitars and ukeleles, accordion, drums...) but these two songs sound more like a band than anything they've made before. They are currently touring the USA but no news of a first album yet even though they have plenty of unpublished songs, but don't think it's anytime soon as the plan for this year is to publish a limited edition of 100 CD every end of the month consisting of demos and covers recorded in one day. Sorry but, at the moment of writing this there are only copies left for November and December.