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L.A. Witch have always exuded an aura of effortless cool, whether it manifested as the

Americana noir and laconic back-to-basics rock n’ roll of their self-titled debut or the blistering

austere adventurism of their sophomore album Play With Fire. The band—comprised of Sade

Sanchez (guitar/vocals), Irita Pai (bass), and Ellie English (drums)—began as an informal affair,

but the sultry and beguiling reverb-draped songs they created caught on with the public, moving

the project beyond the insular space of the band’s friends and peers in Southern California into

the broader world. On their latest album, DOGGOD, the trio push their craft beyond their

previous creative and geographical confines, opting to craft the material in Paris, recording the

tracks at Motorbass Studio on the Rue de Martyrs. DOGGOD explores broader swaths of sonic

terrain, employs a greater arsenal of tones, and probes larger existential and cosmic themes, all

while retaining the band’s signature sense of the forbidden, the forsaken, and the foreboding.