The news here is proportionately good and undetailed. After spending much of the last two years on the road celebrating their catalog, sometimes with whole-album residencies, sometimes just with regular-old constant touring, Nashville heavy psych-blues innovators All Them Witches are currently holed up in the writing process for what will become their seventh full-length. They quickly confirm they’ll record in January, which assuming that results in a 2025 release — hey, you never know — would put their next album at five years’ remove from 2020’s Nothing as the Ideal (review here), which might be fair to call the longest break between LPs in their career if it weren’t for the fact that they spent all of 2022 issuing a monthly singles project called Baker’s Dozen (discussed here) and had the Live on the Internet CD/LP besides. They didn’t disappear, is what I’m saying.

No word on who’s recording — could this be a moment for McLeod to step into producing the band? — or where, but the span of time since Nothing as the Ideal means that All Them Witches‘ next LP will be their first since two pivotal lineup changes took place in the band; first, Rhodes pianist and violinist Allan Van Cleave returned in 2021, and second, drummer Robby Staebler made a hard right turn politically and split with the group to pursue other projects, resulting in All Them Witches bringing Christian Powers on board for the first time. Powers has spent the bulk of 2024 playing live with the band, so I’ve little doubt that while the dynamic will likely have shifted, the chemistry will be on lock between the new guy and the three founding members he joins, Van Cleave, McLeod and bassist/vocalist Charles Michael Parks, Jr.. To that I would just point out that no two All Them Witches records have ever been the same but they’ve all made their way to ‘rad’ by one path or another and I’ve little doubt the band will get there again.

So, maybe next summer? A Sept. 2025 release? Depends on who’s putting it out, which we also don’t know yet, if it’s still New West Records or what. I look forward to hopefully finding out in the New Year.

From socials:

Hi. We are writing a new record! Recording in January. Amping. Thank you!!

All Them Witches are:
Charles Michael Parks, Jr. – bass/vocals
Allan Van Cleave – Rhodes/violin
Ben McLeod – guitar
Christian Powers – drums

http://allthemwitches.bandcamp.com/
http://www.facebook.com/allthemwitches
https://www.instagram.com/allthemwitchesband/
http://www.allthemwitches.org/

All Them Witches, Baker’s Dozen playlist

Tags: All Them Witches, Nashville, Tennessee

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