The folk-psychedelia of Bog Witch has released a new single entitled, ‘Mr. Fly’. Rooted in a background of Americana from her other solo work, Wendy DuMond uses the Bog Witch project to veer towards the surreal. The result is something raw and untethered, and open for experimentation.
As the grooving bass tones and ringing drums settle down, we are taken to an intimate dialogue with the titular character. Filling out the soundscape’s poetry with brass and saxophone stabs and rogue melodies, there’s an energising, bouncy nature to the whole affair.
Wendy explains, ”‘Mr. Fly’ is a nod to Emily Dickinson’s reflections on mortality. It’s a one-sided discussion with a housefly. But it’s also a meditation on life, death, and co-dependence. There’s a bit of dark humour in lines like, ‘You’re ugly and you don’t care / if nobody wants you there’ or ‘One small slip, and we’re dropping like flies.’”
The folky wind and horn extravaganza follows on from this year’s whimsical Hatter’s Mad Emporium, a reimagining of Lewis Carroll’s tea party through sitar, ukulele, and brass texture. The Bog Witch tradition continues, with bright, animated soundscapes that challenge convention.
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