Wicca Phase Springs Eternal Announces "Mossy Oak Shadow"

The one and only Wicca Phase Springs Eternal (aka Pennsylvania-based singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Adam Andrzejewski) has returned with perhaps his most dramatic stylistic reinvention to date: his upcoming full-length, Mossy Oak Shadow. Due out September 19th from Run For Cover Records, the album finds Andrzejewski setting aside the rap production that's defined much of his work to date, instead applying his trademark melancholy mysticism to a set of sparse and stirring folk rock songs that show Wicca Phase Springs Eternal's only limit is his own imagination. 

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Today WPSE is introducing the world of Mossy Oak Shadow with two new songs, "Horseback" and "Enchantment," which showcase the album's raw and hazy mood, recorded live with Andrzejewski and producer/engineer Ben Greenberg (Depeche Mode, Drab Majesty, Show Me The Body) accompanied by only a drummer and keyboardist. The songs highlight the incredible knack for heartbreaking melodies and longing lyricism that's always been at the center of WPSE's music, no matter what sonic palette Andrzejewski has used.

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

Upcoming Shows:
07/17 Brooklyn, NY @ Baby's All Right
09/07 Bristol, United Kingdom @ Electric Bristol *
09/09 Glasgow, United Kingdom @ Barrowland Ballroom *
09/10 Manchester, United Kingdom @ Academy *
09/11 Leeds, United Kingdom @ Project House *
09/13 London, United Kingdom @ roundhouse *
09/14 London, United Kingdom @ O2 Forum Kentish Town *
09/19 Austin, TX @ Antone’s
09/20 Dallas, TX @ Ferris Wheelers
09/22 Mesa, AZ @ The Rosetta Room
09/23 Los Angeles, CA @ Masonic Lodge
09/24 San Francisco, CA @ Swedish American Hall
09/26 Seattle, WA @ Fremont Abbey
09/27 Portland, OR @ Polaris Hall

* With Turnover