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Floating Witch's Head
hometown: Boise, ID
🏠Boise, ID
Floating Witch's Head is a project based in Boise, ID concocted by Travis Ward (guitars &‬ vocals) with Michael Mitchell (drums), Eric Gilbert (keyboards). RIYL: garage, psych, swamp,‬ proto-punk, acid rock, beards, hot peppers, pickles, parties, nice people‬.
"You Look Like a Rainbow" is the first full length album by Boise's own garage-psych power trio,‬ Floating Witch's Head. This limited edition "Psychedelic Sunset" LP is pressed into a 3-color‬ Orchid/Tangerine/Canary swirl.‬
In the simplest of terms, fans of psych-rock by way of Dead Moon, Black Lips, Guided By‬ Voices, Osees, The Kinks, MJ Lenderman and The Schizophonics will find the overdriven‬ guitars, organs, Moog bass lines and driving rhythms easy to love.‬
At the heart of Floating Witch's Head is the songwriting of Travis Ward—also the frontman of the‬ nearly 20-years active Hillfolk Noir. While Hillfolk Noir is very much a folk oriented affair, Floating‬ Witch’s Head is a sweaty, gritty, tube-driven, garage-y milieu. Joined by Eric Gilbert on‬ organs/synths and Michael Mitchell on drums, this is a band dedicated to the artistry of music‬ and all the little things in a song that make it great.‬
â€Ward’s open guitar tunings and overdriven amps lend themselves to a very heavy, psychedelic‬ blues-oriented guitar. Gilbert on keys provides organ leads and soundscapes while providing‬ perfectly punchy round basslines through his Moog synth. Then there’s Mitchell on the drums‬ whose taste on the kit balances driving rhythms with laid back beats in all the right moments.‬