Heg & The Wolf Chorus
Album: The White Witch
Label: Self Released
Tracks: 2
Website: http://www.hegandthewolfchorus.com

I'm getting impatient! For after releasing three stormingly tantalising EPs/singles over the past 18 months, the Bristol four-piece is here serving up one more taster for its upcoming full-lengther Raising The Fires, which I gather is finally destined for release in 2016. It's another demonstration of the sheer power and drama of songwriter Heg Brignall's music and the uniqueness of her vision. The White Witch is a characteristically majestic Heg mythical ballad cast in the form of a dark, disturbing fairytale, which builds from a deceptively quiet opening to a grand, controlled crescendo of luscious string tones, piano and pounding, battering tympani. And it's brilliantly recorded too.

The single's companion track is billed as a Jilk Remix (by Jon Worsley), and turns out to be an even more intriguing, extraordinary excursion into ear-stimulating, shimmering, jittery electronica that charms and bewitches and bewilders; and yet it's almost unrecognisable as the same piece! Yeah, I'm sure getting impatient - roll on 2016!

David Kidman