Elk Witch Sign to StoneFly Records for Beyond the Mountain LP
On March 11, StoneFly Records will start taking preorders for the vinyl edition of Elk Witch‘s debut full-length, Beyond the Mountain, ahead of a April 15 release. A week later, on March 18, the album will see its digital release, so if you’re not dead-set on hearing it on vinyl first, you’ll have a chance to dig in ahead of time to the natural follow-up built off of the Medford, Oregon, trio’s first EP, 2021’s The Mountain. And if you’re the CD type, well, I just got one in the mail about 10 minutes before writing this, so I know that exists too.
Comprised now of six songs that together run 37 minutes, the new release harnesses vibes from the Freedom Hawkish opener “Cape Foulweather” to the jazzier launch and more grandiose spaciousness of “The Plight of Valus” at the finish, bringing riffs and fuzz a-plenty in between, Deven Andersen‘s vocals pushed under the guitar to emphasize largesse and give a more immersive feel. It works, and that opening and closing bookend, as it happens, are also the two tracks that make the difference between The Mountain and Beyond the Mountain. All the material has also been re-recorded with Andersen helming, so it’s not like there’s a radical shift in sound between the “new” stuff and the “old,” which, mind you, still came out less than a year ago.
Tall trees, lots of rain, heavy riffs. Have at it:
OREGON-BASED STONER ROCK RIFFCRAFTERS ELK WITCH SIGNS TO STONEFLY RECORDS FOR A WORLDWIDE VINYL RELEASE OF THEIR NEW ALBUM BEYOND THE MOUNTAIN ON APRIL 15th, 2022.
StoneFly Records is stoked to announce the signing of Medford, OR stoner rock riffcrafters Elk Witch and look forward to release their first album Beyond The Mountain on 180g vinyl. This album will be the 4th album released by StoneFly Records.
Back in March 2021, I came across Elk Witch first EP called The Mountain. I really loved it and I saw a great deal of potential in this trio. I decided to approach the guys to see if they would be interested in remodeling their EP into a full LP by adding few more songs. They happened to be working on 2 new songs at that moment. A contract was shortly signed between us.
So, for this extended release they went back to the studio for an entirely new production of all the songs from their debut release The Mountain with the addition of two new songs. The songs were recorded in May 2021 and mixed in June by Deven Andersen at Vortex Studios. Later, in July, the songs were mastered for digital, CD and Vinyl by Carl Saff at Saff Mastering.
Elk Witch’s Beyond The Mountain will release digitally on March 18, 2022.
Vinyl will release on April 15th, 2022. Stonefly Records is excited to give this album a blistering vinyl treatment. The vinyl will be available in both Fly-High and Set-In-Stone edition.
We open the doors for the vinyl pre-order on March 11, 2021.
BEYOND THE MOUNTAIN TRACK LISTING:
1. Cape Foulweather
2. The Woodsmen
3. Llao’s Island
4. Coyote and the Wind’s Daughters
5. Greybeard Arsenal
6. The Plight of Valus
Elk Witch is:
Deven Andersen: Guitar/ Vocals
Darren Wostenberg: Bass
Joe Coitus: Drums
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