Following on from the sweltering shoegazing of ‘Baby Tooth’ and the prickly post-punk hues of ‘Devil Dressed in Disguise’, a third teaser of Blood Wizard’s upcoming LP ‘Grinning William’ lifts the lid on yet another one of their many musical guises.
A grunting, snorting, snarling, grunge stomper that morphs in and out of dreamy psychedelic splendour and twinkling indie-folk marvels as if puppeted by some wicked spell book, ‘BIG FISH’ conjures a kind of effortless, pithy songwriterly magic. Defying all physical laws, it’s a track that swishes up through the clouds and up into interstellar orbit, in spite of self-deprecating lyric that speaks of self-worth completely lost: “I thought I was big fish / Turns out I was bait”
An accompanying music video featuring project-spearhead Cai Burns in some fully ridiculous one-man band get-up is also particularly inspired. As its narrative unfolds, Burns becomes overwhelmed by moss, flowers and fungi in some damp and dingy English forest, offering some kind of intensely profound tragic-comic metaphor on the artists’ condition, or something.
Photo by Jackson Bowley
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