Hey, remember when All Them Witches said they were recording in January? Well they did. And apparently they’re done. Seems like it was a pretty quick process, honestly.

The band’s socials this past weekend charted the progress in a series of photos and video clips — the Nashville-based heavy-psych blues innovators have never wanted for documentation, which is to their credit — and that series resolved at about 3:30AM on Sunday morning with the words “done tracking,” an emoji, and some stylized black and white shots.

Of course, “done tracking” isn’t the same as “album’s finished.” I don’t have info on who’s going to mix or master the release, but even if it’s done in-house by the band themselves it takes some time, and from there, a lot depends on how the record is being released. 2019’s Nothing as the Ideal (review here) was tracked as the trio of bassist/vocalist Charles Michael Parks, Jr — who finished this session just in time to go on tour with King Buffalo this week (dates here; they added a second Brooklyn show) — guitarist Ben McLeod and drummer Robby Staebler.

Since their impending LP will be their first since 2017’s Sleeping Through the War (review here) to feature organist/violinist Allan Van Cleave, and their first with new drummer Christian Powers, the anticipation is high to hear how the dynamic and direction of the reliably amorphous band have shifted in the past six tumultuous-for-everybody years. If you hit their Instagram or stories or reels or whatever the fuck we’re being told to call short videos on the internet this week, some of it sounds pretty heavy. Whenever and however the new album shows up — surprise release this Wednesday would totally work for me, just saying — a personal challenge thereafter is to go see the band live, which I’ve not done in too long. The good news is there will likely be ample opportunity once the record is out.

When I see more, I’ll say more. For now, here’s “done tracking” preserved for posterity:

DONE TRACKING 🙂

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

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http://www.allthemwitches.org/

All Them Witches in the studio 2025

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