Esben And The Witch
Violet Cries

Batten the hatches! Close the curtains! Hide under the bed! Wait, that’s where the monster usually lives, so I’d scrap that. But prepare for pant-fill...

Buy at iTunesAs concerns works of art, comfort is highly overrated. In music, as it is with visual art, film or literature, familiarity has its place,...

Brighton has its own grips with musical reality, offering festivals, gigs and throwing out talented bands that have since gripped the rest of the UK. ...

Dream pop represents a pretty specific sound, one that often borrows much more from the silky ambiance of shoegaze than heavily structured pop songs. ...

The first word that springs to mind when describing this album is “goth”. Not in a pejorative sense, but in terms of the way that this music’s texture...

It’s taken a year, but Britain finally has its very own answer to witch-house: Esben and the Witch, the fairy-tale-referencing Brighton trio whose Vio...

Esben And The Witch struck its most dramatic ice-queen pose on the doom-minus-the-gloom single “Marching Song.” On the rest of its Matador debut, Viol...

The video for Esben and the Witch's "Marching Song" is one of the most morbidly transfixing clips I've seen in recent years. It opens on rotating clos...

Only a few moments into Esben and the Witch’s opening track, “Argryia,” and I wanted to consult a spectrometer. It’s a pulsing song; it drives hard an...

There are shadows cast from the emanating sounds produced by Brighton trio Esben and the Witch. Their music is as epic as it is suffocating, it will h...