'Make Things Happen': LA Witch Gets Combustible On 'Play With Fire'

LA Witch are dropping their new album, Play With Fire on August 21st. Suicide Squeeze's exclusive vinyl pressing of Play WIth Fire has already sold out but an edition of 500 on popsicle red and orange vinyl is now up for pre-order. 

The band have released "Gen Z" and a video for the song ahead of the album:

Guitarist/vocalist Sade Sanchez comments on the new album:

“Play With Fire is a suggestion to make things happen. Don’t fear mistakes or the future. Take a chance. Say and do what you really feel, even if nobody agrees with your ideas. These are feelings that have stopped me in the past. I want to inspire others to be freethinkers even if it causes a little burn.”

Bassist Irita Pai and drummer Ellie English create the band’s vintage sound, which was originally a "casual affair" until the band’s popularity grew and they began touring regularly, and it took more strategy to find time to put together an album.

Suicide Squeeze has this to say about some of the songs we'll find on Play with Fire:

"Play With Fire comes crashing out of the gate with a bold, brash, in-your-face rocker “Fire Starter.”

The authoritative opener is a deliberate mission statement. And by that line of reasoning, “Fire Starter” becomes a call to action, an anthem against apathy.

From there the album segues into the similarly bodacious rocker “Motorcycle Boy”—a feisty love song inspired by classic cinema outlaws like Mickey Rourke, Marlon Brando, and Steve McQueen.

At track three we hear L.A. Witch expand into new territories as “Dark Horse” unfurls a mixture of dustbowl folk, psychedelic breakdowns, and fire-and-brimstone organ lines. And from there the band only gets more adventurous."