‘Witches Finger’ is the new release from Spill Gold the darkly electronic duo of Nina de Jong on drums and Rosa Ronsdorf on vocals and synths. The track is from their forthcoming album ZaZa which is released on May 17.
Joyzine is one of the few places you can see the video for ‘Witches Finger’ first and unlike their video for ‘Beast Machine Alien’, where you can watch a drum kit assaulted by cake, this is a more sombre affair in keeping with the music. It has the dark mood of a Bill Brandt or Anton Corbijn picture with high contrast black and white creating stark contrasting tones on the remote beach where it is shot.
The track rumbles along on low modulated tones and slap-back drums like ancient whispers escaping from deep within the earth, and the dual high/low voices hover like mist above the granite core of this track. Its creeping sense of something-wicked-this-way-comes is compelling and it’s hard not to want to follow Spill Gold into the dark where the band say there are “snakes biting their own tails, volcanic eruptions, and witch fingers breaking down towers.”
Direction by Sofie Kramer
Camera by Herman van den Muijsenberg & Sofie Kramer
Colour editing by Amos Mulder
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You can also read my review of their last album Highway Hypnosis from November 2020.
Review by Paul F Cook
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