Pennsylvania-based singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Adam Andrzejewski has announced a new Wicca Phase Springs Eternal album. Mossy Oak Shadow, the follow-up to his 2023 self-titled LP, arrives September 19 via Run for Cover. Accompanying the announcement are two new songs ‘Horseback’ and ‘Enchantment’, which mark the project’s shift toward folky, raw songwriting while sounding quite upbeat. “Seasons past are heading back in dark, familiar ways/ Bonnie ghosts from down the coast in pools of shadow wade,” Andrzejewski sings on the latter. Take a listen below.
“I always kind of thought that as long as I have the Wicca Phase Springs Eternal name that I can do whatever I want,” Andrzejewski said in a press release. “The name provides a framework for the lyrics and aesthetics of the project–my songwriting with a mystical overlay to it–and as long as I can make something work within that, then the genre doesn’t totally matter.”
“There’s always been acoustic songs on my records but usually they’re in the context of a beat-based Wicca Phase album,” he added. “I think the idea here was to just kind of start fresh and go hard in this other direction. The temptation is to call it a country record, I don’t really think it’s that–but there’s acoustic guitar and slide guitar, and I think my interests and themes do have elements of country in sort of an archetypical way.”
Mossy Oak Shadow was produced by Uniform’s Ben Greenberg, who also worked on Wicca Phase Springs Eternal’s previous album. It was recorded with a backing band featuring Greenberg on bass and session musicians Ryan Jewell and David Moore on drums and keys. The song ‘Meet Me Anywhere’ is a collaboration with former duet partner Ethel Cain.
“Dave and Ryan were guys Ben had worked with, but I’d never met them,” Andrzejewski commented. “When we got there, I had lyrics, chords, and demos–we’d listen to the demo once, Ben would make some suggestions, and then we’d try it. I would literally ask ‘do I need to teach these guys the songs…’ and Ben would say ‘no they’d figure it out’–and they did! There was no discussion, they just got it. They were so perfect, Ben included, that it was no different than just singing over a beat or something I’d created.”
Mossy Oak Shadow Cover Artwork:
Mossy Oak Shadow Tracklist:
1. Rough Roads
2. Horseback
3. Enchantment
4. I Just Moved Here
5. Magic Moment
6. Meet Me Anywhere [feat. Ethel Cain]
7. Looking Back
8. I Get It
9. Settler’s Bend
10. Last Riders Crew
11. I Was A Runner Once
