Witch Post - Butterfly

At the heart of Witch Post is cross-country folklore, the pair - Alaska Reid and Dylan Fraser - spanning Scotland and the US while conjuring placelessness and happenstance with their music. Across their second EP ‘Butterfly’, they’re just as captivated by and fanatical about the strangeness of a journey or transition: this time, a brooding, listless dissection of memory and regret. Remnants of 2025’s ‘Beast’ remain, where rustic Scottish rock intertwined with North American indie to forge heady and steely roots, but this time they’re looking up towards a sun-drenched canopy, their ghostly alt-Americana sounds less grounded and more abstract. Take standout ‘Witching Hour’ and its haunting penitence driven by a hypnotic electric guitar riff, or the similarly affected ‘Country Sour’, a barn dance through dizzying self-reproach, both reaching for absolution or something simpler, easier. The liminality of its indie-pop sound - a grungy, temperate dreamscape - is accompanied by a Lynchian short story that sees the duo drive through ‘familiar places’ that “shift and change in a matter of minutes” to dig up an unnamed, uncertain buried artefact. It reaffirms the supernatural tension within ‘Butterfly’: that there exists a remorseful presence which keeps them at once both stuck and moving, a desire for destination and resolution, even in the absence of any at all. Across this touching second entry, Witch Post cement their vision for animated, folky indie-rock - all while crafting engaging lore - and arrive at an exciting road ahead.