Wytch Pycknyck Unleash “Rawkuss” Single & Announce Debut Self Titled Album

Hailing from Hastings, UK Wytch Pycknyck started as the brainchild of old childhood buddies Malt Jones and Bonj, and they were quick off the blocks, playing dates in the UK and Festivals in Europe, honing their garage psychedelic fuzz to realisation. After some lock down separations, they were re-born with drummer Sam Davies and guitarist/synth guru Ewan Fitzgerald who was needing a new home after the demise of his former band Butane Regulators. Blending 70’s and 90’s guitars into a fierce lo-fi stoner, psychedelic, garage rock brawl, last September the band issued the stomping fuzz attack of the Columbo No.5 single to give the wider world a hint of the sonic barrage to come, before heading to the infamous Tunbridge Wells Forum studios to start work on their debut self titled album that features cover art by Oakland based trash horror legend Skinner, 50 signed double crown posters are available on pre order bundles with the first 300 copies pressed on translucent green vinyl. 

As with recording a debut album perhaps the idea of nailing it in five days may have been optimistic, but with the tracks recorded and the studio engineer committed to other work for the rest of the year, the band were left scratching their heads. They knew a local beekeeper who was the mother of a producer, raised on metal but recently had engineering credits with artists such as Stefflon Don, Stormzy & Skepta…. perfect. A call was made, and Jake Jones delivered! With the album now complete, Wytch Pycknyck are ready to stomp out of the starting blocks with new single and album opening track, Rawkuss. Statements of intent don’t come more perfect than this. Loud, abrasive and jarring, Rawkuss is a cacophonous and bewildering sonic attack that simultaneously warps your mind and kicks your arse.

“Who wouldn’t wanna party with the animals that live in the zoo?” bellows Malt Jones at the start of the track, intriguing the listener from the very start. Fuck yes, we want to party with the animals in the zoo if this is the soundtrack!  Wytch Pycknyck are LOUD yet maintain a trashy garage feel. The album may only be seven songs long, but the band traverse many difference moods and styles in that time. Two and half minute thrash-outs sit shoulder to shoulder with nine-minute psych monsters AND it all makes sense. Off the blocks with Rawkuss and ending with Frostbite, a spoken word/rap intro metamorphosis into a space rock psychedelic wig out with bassist Ewan Fitzgerald’s passion for analogue synths coming to the fore. Sometimes the guitars shred and sometimes the bass takes pole position, either way prepare to have your head lifted off by Wytch Pycknyck’s juggernaut journey of Motörhead meets Butthole Surfers meets Sonic Youth pop-noise, all delivered with an AC/DC stomp.

“Something wild, strong and traditional about a group of repressed, incarcerated and badly treated individuals managing to rally themselves together, against the man, to throw a party. 100% pure defiance, like the Blitz, or Jailhouse Rock, or the Breakfast Club.” (Malt Jones)

Wytch Pycknyck‘s self titled debut album is due for release on June 21st via Property Of The Lost Records and is available for pre-order here.