Wicca Phase Springs Eternal

Wicca Phase Springs Eternal shares new song "Meet Me Anywhere" featuring Ethel Cain. New album Mossy Oak Shadow out this Friday via Run For Cover Records.

The one and only Wicca Phase Springs Eternal (aka Pennsylvania-based singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Adam Andrzejewski) is about to release his latest stylistic reinvention. This Friday, September 19th, Andrzejewski's new album Mossy Oak Shadow, arrives via Run For Cover Records. The album foregoes the rap/electronic production that's defined much of WPSE's work and instead applies his trademark melancholy mysticism to a set of stirring folk rock songs that prove Andrzejewski's only limit is his own imagination. 

Today, he is sharing one more longing new single, "Meet Me Anywhere" featuring guest vocals from none other than Ethel Cain.

The track follows "Magic Moment", "Settler's Bend", "Horseback", and "Enchantment", and immediately envelopes the listener in the intriguing moods and melodies of Mossy Oak Shadow. It's an earnest and deeply satisfying duet between two artists whose work has often been defined by subversion and surprises, and an intriguing entryway into the eclectic world of Wicca Phase Springs Eternal.

Recorded live with Andrzejewski and producer/engineer Ben Greenberg (Depeche Mode, Drab Majesty, Show Me The Body) accompanied by only a drummer and keyboardist, Mossy Oak Shadow showcases the timelessly compelling songwriting that's always been at the core of Andrzejewski's work.

“I always kind of thought that as long as I have the Wicca Phase Springs Eternal name that I can do whatever I want”,

he explains.

“The name provides a framework for the lyrics and aesthetics of the project–my songwriting with a mystical overlay to it–and as long as I can make something work within that, then the genre doesn’t totally matter.”

That daring creative mentality is what steered Andrzejewski when he first started the WPSE project, through his work as a co-founder of the influential GothBoiClique collective, or as member of Thraxxhouse and Misery Club, and even with his punk side project, Pay For Pain. Still, few could have guessed that the new proper Wicca Phase Springs Eternal release would be a set of country-leaning folk songs performed without a wink in sight.

As with all things WPSE, Mossy Oak Shadow finds Andrzejewski fully committing, and in many ways the record feels like it’s simply leaning harder into parts of his musical DNA that have always been there. 

“The temptation is to call it a country record, I don't really think it’s that–but there’s acoustic guitar and slide guitar, and I think my interests and themes do have elements of country in sort of an archetypical way." 

he says.

Having just performed in the UK with Turnover, Wicca Phase Springs Eternal will continue their run of live dates this Friday with a show in Austin, Texas on Mossy Oak Shadow's release day, followed by a subsequent tour of headline dates across the US.

Picture by Katrina Andrzejewski

Live Dates

19/09 Austin, TX @ Antone’s

20/09 Dallas, TX @ Ferris Wheelers

22/09 Mesa, AZ @ The Rosetta Room

23/09 Los Angeles, CA @ Masonic Lodge

24/09 San Francisco, CA @ Swedish American Hall

26/09 Seattle, WA @ Fremont Abbey

27/09 Portland, OR @ Polaris Hall