{"title":"Wytch Hazel @ct@if@band-music-11027@","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"wytch-hazel-iv-sacrament-lp","title":"Wytch Hazel - IV: Sacrament - LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\r\nFor many all-time-great rock bands in the ascendant, the fourth album is often the point where youthful years of febrile creativity and progressive momentum culminate in a masterwork for the ages, setting the seal on an early signature sound while opening it up to future possibilities. From enchanting 2016 debut Prelude, through 2018’s assured II: Sojourn, to 2020’s wizardly III: Pentecost, each Wytch Hazel album has embodied that old-fashioned notion of unstoppable progress, and the glittering treasure chest that is IV: Sacrament proves eminently worthy of rising to the toughest challenge. Not just the Lancashire quartet’s most classically beautiful production, but their strongest yet front-to-back collection of affecting hooks and ageless melodies.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\nA very tough challenge it was, too; records this good don’t get banged out willy-nilly, and Jimmy Page, Ian Anderson and Freddie Mercury didn’t have to fit recordings in between day jobs and school runs. “This album has been a trial,” sighs founding singer\/guitarist Colin Hendra with his head in his hands, his voice full of cold. “It’s been a tough few years for everyone, which plays into it, but it was exhausting. Working full time, trying to be a dad and husband, running the band, writing the albums - and being a complete control freak about every aspect of the process...” Colin breaks off and chuckles at his Eeyorish approach to album promotion. “But there’s no gain without pain!”\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\nThe triumphs and tragedies are written all over IV: Sacrament. Working closely again with regular producer Ed Turner, Colin’s God-given gift for diamond songwriting has been enhanced to majestic proportions with Ed’s Roy Thomas Baker doozy of a production job, his expressive sonic trickery sublimely underscoring the varied musical moods. “Me and Ed like the same albums, so we’re singing from the same hymn sheet every time,” enthuses Colin. “We love the Sabbath production, obviously Martin Birch, and the Queen albums; we want it to sound like Wytch Hazel, which it kind of always does, but we want it to also have that classic sort of quality.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Season of Mist - North America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53025757102377,"sku":"P-54324-","price":23.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0952\/9219\/5113\/files\/Wytch-Hazel-IV-Sacrament-LP-54324-1-1683648717.jpg?v=1778038825"},{"product_id":"wytch-hazel-v-lamentations-cd","title":"Wytch Hazel - V: Lamentations - CD","description":"\u003cp\u003eLancastrian rock apostles Wytch Hazel have been building their citadel since 2011, when debut single Surrender introduced this boldly wholesome new voice to the British metal underground. 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The latter, bizarrely, reached number seven on the UK ‘Christian \u0026amp; Gospel’ chart, due to a mis-classification at the UKCC, despite selling enough to clinch the number one rock album spot.\u003cbr\u003e*Song\/Album Blurb (500 characters max):\u003cbr\u003eWOVEN\u003cbr\u003eA shining example of Wytch Hazel’s singular songcraft, Woven radiates a wholesome rustic charm tempered with pensive melancholy, its scrupulous simplicity belying its ability to continue blossoming with every spin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“On this one in particular you can hear us locking in and playing off each other in the room” says Colin of this crafty galloping singalong; “I really wanted to write a Heavy Rock song about sensitivity \/ gentleness which you don’t hear too much of really, there’s this section where it goes quiet after the lyrics “be sensitive” then a big guitar solo comes in where I try my best to shred and let it all loose”. This heavenly lead, initially improvised, then had to be slowed down and meticulously relearnt.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Season of Mist - North America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53031003619625,"sku":"P-63468-","price":15.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0952\/9219\/5113\/files\/Wytch-Hazel-V-Lamentations-CD-63468-1-1747320808.jpg?v=1778067584"},{"product_id":"wytch-hazel-v-lamentations-lp-colored","title":"Wytch Hazel - V: Lamentations - LP COLORED","description":"\u003cp\u003eLancastrian rock apostles Wytch Hazel have been building their citadel since 2011, when debut single Surrender introduced this boldly wholesome new voice to the British metal underground. Since then the quartet have continually underscored and bolstered a signature sound rooted in heroic days of yore, but finessed to an elegant apex by long-time producer Ed Turner. 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