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Live Review: LISTEN: Wax Witches 'Wave Of Mutilation' (Pixies Cover)

7 November 2012 | 1:45 pm | Hannah Galvin

Alex Wall of BKC covered the Pixies' 'Wave Of Mutiliation' under his side project - Wax Witches. It's pretty sick, check it owwwt!

Imagine yourself as a dude high off your nut laying down on a set of ivory sheets in your bedroom. You’re closing your eyes and suddenly feel as though you’re sitting on some molten rock in a volcano watching two freakish monsters fight to the death.

Oh and Britney Spears is encouraging the gnarly brutality on the side as she shaves her hair off.. Again. If this vision were a band, your result would be WAX WITCHES. Starting out in 2011, Alex Wall of Bleeding Knees Club created the side project, probably because he was bored.

After releasing an EP titled Melted Green with track names such as, ‘Gay Batman’, ‘Ice Cream Suxx’ and ‘Fuck Shit Up’, more and more fans started jumping on the Wax Witches bandwagon/cauldron as a result of listening to the short, lo-fi, punk tunes.

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Now after a few EPs, singles and a handful of live shows with Brett Jansch of BKC behind the drum kit (their first gig ever was supporting the legendary Blood Orange at FBi Social), Wall has covered the Pixies’ classic ‘Wave Of Mutilation’ off the album Doolittle.

Drenched in reverb and spiralled vocals, Wall sounds as though he’s playing Singstar in space. The instrumentation resonates with the original track pretty perfectly; I actually can’t tell if Wall has recorded himself playing or has just tweaked the original a little and sang over the top of it.

Either way, it’s a pretty rad cover and has been executed in a style that only Wax Witches could pull off.

After a few different self-directed assignments that Wall has uploaded to the Internet (such as No Hope and his EP titled Yellow Mustard which holds a “Series of short songs about the obvious”), Wax Witches is definitely the most established side project of them all.

If you ever get to see them play, make sure you do. This live duo are super fun.

Words by Hannah Galvin, check out her street on POSSE.COM