Credit: Found On Internet

Label: Colony2 Records
Release: 2 October

The moniker Mississippi Witch really tells you everything you need to know about the band– and their startling debut single.

Dark, gnarled, treacle-thick and twisted, with ominous lyrics full of gunpowder - Roosevelt is a fascinating first glimpse into the heavy blues-rock soul of two-some Mississippi Witch.

A three-minute head-spin underpinned by a brooding guitar riff, stuttering drums and Olli Walker’s tobacco-stained screeched and mumbled vocals.

B-side Alligator Mechanics is worth a crack too. A well-constructed, menacing ditty, laden with lazy bass and off-kilter banjo - but probably not the sort of thing to listen to whilst eating cheese before bedtime.

Mississippi Witch sound like they’ve been dragged up in the Deep South but unless Bristol counts, (which it doesn’t), then what we’re witnessing is a band creating their own sound from nothing more than musical hand-me-downs and the dark meanderings of the mind’s eye.

Impressive stuff.

4/5

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