“The Depressing Sounds of the Witch” is a track that comes from Ecuadorian goth band Sexores. The song strikes a beautiful balance between new wave, shoegaze and gothic rock. It comes off of their promising new album Salamanca, a rumination on women and witchcraft equipped with some menacing cover art. Speaking to Remezcla on her goals for the album, singer Emilia Bahamonde Noriega says, “We wanted to talk about how women have been written off as witches because they don’t fill the roles they are supposed to fulfill, like ‘wife’ and ‘mother.’ I have lived through that as a woman my whole life and I have seen it in my profession. I wanted to turn it around, not to victimize myself but to empower us. We’re sick of getting killed, the death rates are very high and the authorities are not doing enough to stop them rising.” To paint these issues Sexores uses airy vocals, shoegaze guitars and synths, and pummeling percussion that keeps things from getting too muddy. Many lines speak to feminine resiliency, such as, “I am the witch / they couldn’t defeat.” Noriega describes recording the record as “a liberating experience” and the same could be said of listening to it. Check out Sexores’ new album Salamanca here.
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