Album Review: ATW by All Them Witches

2017's Sleeping Through the War saw the Tennessee-based psych-blues outfit drop a largely song-oriented set of cosmic stoner metal emissions that dialed back on some of the more exploratory aspects of their previous outings. With the simply titled ATW, All Them Witches have married both sensibilities, delivering tense, doomy highway burners ("Workhorse"), greasy Southern groove-blues goodies ("Fishbelly 86 Onions"), and brevity-averse "Dazed & Confused"-inspired slow jams ("Harvest Feast"), all of which sound like they were born of an epic 4/20 jam session. Free -- for better or for worse -- of the stylish, yet tasteful sonic fingerprints of producer Dave Cobb, who helmed Sleeping Through the War, ATW is a homespun affair self-recorded in a cabin just outside of Nashville.

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After releasing four studio albums — each with increased production value and outside intervention — All Them Witches have turned inwards for their fifth, opting to self-record and produce ATW in a cabin less than an hour's drive from their native Nashville.   The result is understandably different from much of the band's catalogue. The stoner rock aesthetic that characterizes earlier work like Lightning at the Door and Dying Surfer Meets His Maker is not as easy to spot on ATW, which favours reflectiveness over rambunctious riffs ….

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