genre: alternative, alternative folkartist: the witch and the robot
album: on safari
featured tracks: a crocodile song, giant's graves
label: ATIC records
The witch and the robot hails to us from the lake district in the UK (don't know where that is? GoogleMaps indicates it's in the middle of nowheresville) and their sound is "hypnotic, funky fresh." Plain and simple. The bassline in giant's graves sucks you in with it's quirky Jonn Paul Jones-esque rapture... then the percussion starts and you just can't help but tap your feet with the beat. Enter vocals, and with them comes a full-fledged addiction that is best remedied by...well...listening to the rest of the album.
It's a stellar combination of lyrical complexity (St. Thomas Aquinas has his own song), solid rhythmic guitar, entrancing hooks & riffs, and Gogol bordello like percussion. In a word: entrancing.
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