Witch Post, the transatlantic darling of Alaska Reid and Dylan Fraser, are back with their sophomore single ‘Rust’. Marrying vulpine impulses with languid, otherworldly vocals, the track binds together an earthy foundation with layers of something brighter and lighter.
There’s a sense of serendipity to the band that stitches together their music like golden thread; Reid’s Scottish hometown shares a name with Fraser’s Montana one, an oddity that embodies the transcontinental pull that drew the two artists together earlier on this year. Despite their fairly new pairing as musicians, their musical styles meet nicely in a single that reflects back the grungy aesthetic of 00’s American rock, wound up with a wraithlike quality that flickers in the background throughout. The open-road expansiveness of the song’s instrumentals unfurl again and again like a kaleidoscope, twisting open and pulling the listener deeper in. Despite the sense of limitlessness that this prismatic quality affords the song, it’s all packaged up in a neat sub-three-minute runtime.
Photo by Parker Love Bowling
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