New duo Witch Post have released The Wolf, the first single from their debut EP, Beast. We asked them the BIG questions . . .
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Witch Post are Alaska Reid, who is from Montana, and Scotsman Dylan Fraser and The Wolf is their third single, following Chill Out and Rust.
Tell us three things about yourself . . .
Dylan: I'm from Scotland, Alaska is from Montana, we are both from small towns of the same name at opposite ends of the Atlantic Ocean.
How would you describe your music?
Alaska: Recently thinking about our song Dreaming, I came up with this idea of someone mudlarking and listening to Lucinda Williams and John Prine. We’ve been working on music that feels heartfelt for both of us, me while I drive 15 North staring down a sunset and for Dylan while he heads back to Scotland on a train watching rain spatter the windows. We’re both romantics and we’re always chasing the moment a great song can create.
Who are your musical inspirations?
Dylan: I have many musical inspirations but for this band I was listening to a lot of Sonic Youth, The Waterboys, Pixies, Elizabeth Fraser etc.
What was the first gig you ever went to?
Alaska: Three things come to mind; The Fiddler’s Picnic (old guys, bluegrass), Dinosaur Jr. at the House of Blues (when I first started coming to Los Angeles) and a Bob Dylan concert in Billings, Montana at the baseball diamond.
What was the first record you ever bought?
Dylan: I don’t remember exactly but I can assure you I went to HMV with my mum and bought something really terrible.
What’s your favourite song right now?
Dylan: Disobedience by Kim Deal. I’m really loving her new album.
Favourite lyric of all time?
Alaska: Tricky question. At this moment, any lyric on the album All Shook Down by The Replacements and all of Joni Mitchell’s Coyote. I’m going to wake up in the middle of the night with regret that I didn’t list another great lyric moment.
If you could only listen to one song for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Alaska: Sarabande from Bach’s Cello Suite No.1 in G Major, played by Yo-Yo Ma.
Where can we find more information about you and your music?
Instagram and Spotify.
Alan Corr
