Witch Post – Worry Angel
Witch Post announce their new EP Butterfly, out March 20 via Partisan Records, with lead single “Worry Angel”. The duo of Alaska Reid and Dylan Fraser are following up last year’s Beast EP with something that shifts the tone completely.
“Butterfly is the spring thaw after Beast“, they say. “Country fair rides, angels and pixies, talismans, an impulsive fling in a small town, coyotes, fawns—we wanted to contrast the wintry rock of Beast and take listeners on a sonic road trip of different perspectives and in-between places”.
“Worry Angel” groans like a rusty weapon. Crunching guitars sit under nervous arrangements that slowly tighten, with Reid and Fraser’s voices intertwining in sinuous harmonies. The track has that push-pull duality Witch Post keep returning to—big and arena-sized but somehow intimate at the same time, like force about to tip over into something else.
The band describes the song as “a lucky keychain you can’t go anywhere without. It’s a python that curls around your neck and makes you into a bitch. It’s twisted superstition that guides your everyday. It’s a pixie taunting you every time you close your eyes. It’s crows that caw on your walk home. It’s a sense of being watched. It’s sweaty palms. It’s not real. We’re waiting on angels. It’s all real and sometimes it’s all just because we feel alone.”
That sense of restlessness and subliminal fear runs through the track. There’s imagery of isolation, self-made demons, and permanent observation—less explanation than something you can feel. The music blends lo-fi indie rock with expressive grunge, drawing from the dark atmospherics of the American indie scene and the wolfish ways of Scottish rock.
Witch Post’s name comes from 17th-century carvings in rural England crafted to ward off witches. Reid and Fraser adopted it in honor of the witch. They’re from towns that share the same name—one in Scotland, the other in Montana—and met entirely by chance. There’s a folkloric, surreal quality to their storytelling that taps into something archaic.
Tracklist:
- Changeling
- Worry Angel
- Witching Hour
- Twin Fawn
- Country Sour
- Tilt-A-Whirl
- Something To Give
North American Tour Dates:
- March 18 – Los Angeles, CA – El Cid
- March 20 – Brooklyn, NY – Union Pool
