Esben and the Witch; Trophy Wife – review

XOYO, LondonThere is a shadow hanging over music that never really goes away. It ebbs for a bit, then rolls back in, shape-shifting like a dank weather pattern. To call it goth would be disrespectfully reductive. Bandying about a phrase such as "the darkness" just rekindles the trauma associated with a long-forgotten comedy band of the early 00s.You could just about say that, of late, music has been in thrall to a new witching hour. Last year, witch house was the hot American sub-genre name to d...

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