I Just Read About That…

[ATTENDED: May 21, 2026] L.A. Witch

I hadn’t heard of L.A. Witch before this show, but the name sounded promising.  I’m not sue what I expecting, but this band did not bring that.  There was nothing witchy–comical or otherwise) about their songs, which were kind of slow and surfy.

I guess if I had just looked at Wikipedia I would have seen that that is exactly what they sound like:

the band’s sound has been described as a “mix of forlorn psych folk, lethargic lo-fi blues and boozy garage rock drones steeped in moody, drugged-out surf reverb.”

Sade Sanchez (vocals, guitar) plays a hollow bodied electric guitar with lots of reverb.  A couple of songs picked up the pace with Irita Pai’s bass propelling Drive Your Car, but Sanchez’ voice just didn’t do anything for me.  Drummer Ellie English was solid, but with the simple music, there wasn’t too much excitement there.  But, I guess that’s the deal with garage rock, right?

The songs from their latest album were the most enjoyable as they picked up the tempo, even though the vocals were still kind of languid.

DOGGOD has some really cool guitar work–much more complicated and interesting that the earlier songs.  Icicle and I Wanna Lose were bouncy songs and they definitely started to win the crowd over.  An indeed by the last couple of songs, like the ripping Starred (which opened with a great drum and bass rumble) I was enjoying them a lot more.  This song also featured a second guitarist.  There was a fourth member on stage–a woman who was behind a rack of keyboards.  I genuinely couldn’t tell a single thing that she was doing, until she played the second guitar on this song.

Clearly they’re not for me but everyone else seemed to really enjoy them.   Maybe I’m not supposed to like The Black Angels either.

• Dark Horse ψ
• Brian ∇
• Drive Your Car ∇
• Kiss Me Deep œ
• DOGGOD œ
• Icicle œ
• I Wanna Lose ψ
• 777 œ
• The Lines œ
• Starred ψ

œ DOGGOD  (2025)
ψ Play with Fire (2020)
∇ L.A. Witch (2017)